Badarash

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.

For the villages in Iran, see Badarash, Iran.
Not to be confused with Bardarash.

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
Country Iraq
Region Kurdistan Region
GovernorateDohuk Governorate
DistrictAmadiya District
Sub-districtSarsing

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]

  • Church of Mar Gewargis
    Church of Mar Gewargis
  • A house in Badarash
    A house in Badarash

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. "Mar Gewargiz church – Badrash". Ishtar TV. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. Donabed (2015), p. 279.
  4. Donabed (2015), p. 203.
  5. "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

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