Badarash
Village
Badarash is located in Iraq
Badarash
Badarash
Location in Iraq
Badarash is located in Iraqi Kurdistan
Badarash
Badarash
Badarash (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Coordinates: 37°03′N 43°20′E / 37.050°N 43.333°E / 37.050; 43.333
Country Iraq
Region Kurdistan Region
GovernorateDohuk Governorate
DistrictAmadiya District
Sub-districtSarsing

Badarash[nb 1] (Syriac: ܒܕܪܫ)[5] is a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the Sapna valley in the district of Amadiya.

In the village, there is a Chaldean Catholic church of Mar Gewargis.[2][3]

History

After the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, Badarash was settled by Assyrian refugees of the Baz clan from modern-day Turkey in the 1920s, all of whom belonged either to the Church of the East or the Chaldean Catholic Church.[3] The church of Mar Gewargis was constructed in 1925, and by 1938, 152 people inhabited the village, with 27 families.[3] Badarash was destroyed and its population expelled by the Iraqi government at the onset of the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in 1961, prior to which the village had 30 houses.[5] Villagers later returned, but Badarash was destroyed again during the Al-Anfal campaign in 1987.[6]

The village was rebuilt again, and the population of the village reached 40 families by 2004.[7] Violence against Assyrians in urban centres of Iraq led 102 displaced Assyrians, with 27 families, to seek refuge in Badarash by early 2009.[8] By 2012 the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs had constructed 48 houses and a community hall.[5] Humanitarian aid was delivered to Badarash by the Assyrian Aid Society in May 2015.[9] The village's graveyard was renovated by the French non-governmental organisation SOS Chrétiens d'Orient in 2018.[10]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Alternatively transliterated as Badaresh,[1] Badrash,[2] Badrashk,[3] Badarrash,[3] Beth Darrash,[4] or Beth Durashe.[4]

Citations

  1. ↑ "A BAPTISM, A BREATH OF HOPE". SOS Chrétiens d'Orient. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Mar Gewargiz church – Badrash". Ishtar TV. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Donabed (2015), p. 279.
  4. 1 2 Donabed (2015), p. 203.
  5. 1 2 3 "Badarash". Ishtar TV. 16 December 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  6. ↑ Donabed (2010), p. 249.
  7. ↑ Eshoo (2004), p. 7.
  8. ↑ "The Struggle to Exist Part I: An Introduction to the Assyrians and their Human Rights Situation in the New Iraq" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe. February 2010. p. 33. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "AAS-Iraq Provides Hygiene Materials For The Displaced People In Dohuk & Erbil". Assyrian Aid Society. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "BÂTIR UN CIMETIÈRE À BADARESH". SOS Chrétiens d'Orient (in French). 24 August 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

Bibliography

37°03′N 43°20′E / 37.050°N 43.333°E / 37.050; 43.333

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