Badarash | |
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Coordinates: 37°03′N 43°20′E / 37.050°N 43.333°E | |
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Governorate | Dohuk Governorate |
District | Amadiya District |
Sub-district | Sarsing |
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]
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]
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