Avzrog (Arabic: أفزروك,[3] Armenian: Աւզրուկ,[4] Kurdish: ئاڤزریك,[5] Syriac: ܐܦ̮ܙܪܘܟ)[6][nb 1] is a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

[10] Avzrog Miri was founded in 1933 by Kurdish-speaking Armenians from the village of Gaznar, near Van in Turkey, who had taken refuge at Zakho amidst the Armenian genocide in 1915–1917, during the First World War,[12] whereas Avzrog Shano was settled by Syriac-speaking Assyrians in 1936.

[12][16] At Avzrog Miri, the church of Sourp Vartan was built in 2002,[12] and the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs constructed 20 houses and a hall, renovated the school and church, and developed the infrastructure of Avzrog Shano in the following year.

[12][16] Avzrog Miri was visited by Archbishop Avak Asadourian in 2011,[9] and was inhabited by 390 Armenians and 200 Chaldean Catholics in 2012.

[17][nb 2] In the same year, 600 Syriac Orthodox Christians and 185 Chaldean Catholics resided at Avzrog Shano.