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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