who was Nasirbal? for what purpose did he build kerkuk cuty.
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Kirkuk (Arabic: كركوك, romanized: Karkūk,[4] Kurdish: Kerkûk ,کەرکووک,[5] Turkish: Kerkük,[6], Syriac: ܟܪܟܘܟ, Kerkouk[7]) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located 238 kilometres (148 miles) north of Baghdad.[8] Kirkuk lies in a wide zone with an enormously diverse population and has been multilingual for centuries. There were dramatic demographic changes during Kirkuk's urbanization in the twentieth century, which saw the development of distinct ethnic communities.[9] Iraqi Turkmen, Kurds, Arabs, and Assyrian people lay conflicting claims to this zone, and all have their historical accounts and memories to buttress their claims.
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The Assyrian king Nasirbal II built the Kerkuk Citadel between 884 and 858 BC as a military defense line.