Beth Daraye

Beth Daraye (meaning "land of Dara"), known in Arabic sources as Badaraya, was a region and administrative site southeast of the lower Nahrawan Canal, in the Sasanian province of Asoristan in present-day Iraq. 150km east-southeast of Baghdad. It lay between al-Bandanijayn and the environs of Waset and produced excellent dried dates.

Map of the southwestern part of the Sasanian Empire.

Sources

Morony, Michael (1989). "BĒṮ DARAYĒ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 2. p. 186.

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