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.
Badarash | |
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Village | |
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  Badarash Location in Iraq  Badarash Badarash (Iraqi Kurdistan) | |
| Coordinates: 37°03′N 43°20′E / 37.050°N 43.333°E | |
| Country |  Iraq |
| Region |  Kurdistan Region |
| Governorate | Dohuk Governorate |
| District | Amadiya District |
| Sub-district | Sarsing |
In the village, there is a Chaldean Catholic church of Mar Gewargis.[2][3]
History edit
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]
Gallery edit
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Church of Mar Gewargis -
A house in Badarash
References edit
Notes
Citations
- ^ "A BAPTISM, A BREATH OF HOPE". SOS Chrétiens d'Orient. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Mar Gewargiz church – Badrash". Ishtar TV. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Donabed (2015), p. 279.
- ^ a b Donabed (2015), p. 203.
- ^ a b c "Badarash". Ishtar TV. 16 December 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ Donabed (2010), p. 249.
- ^ Eshoo (2004), p. 7.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "AAS-Iraq Provides Hygiene Materials For The Displaced People In Dohuk & Erbil". Assyrian Aid Society. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ "BÂTIR UN CIMETIÈRE À BADARESH". SOS Chrétiens d'Orient (in French). 24 August 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
Bibliography edit
- Donabed, Sargon George (2010). Iraq and the Assyrian Unimagining: Illuminating Scaled Suffering and a Hierarchy of Genocide from Simele to Anfal (PDF). Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- Donabed, Sargon George (2015). Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press.
- Eshoo, Majed (2004). The Fate Of Assyrian Villages Annexed To Today's Dohuk Governorate In Iraq And The Conditions In These Villages Following The Establishment Of The Iraqi State In 1921 (PDF). Translated by Mary Challita.