Badarash | |
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Village | |
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 |
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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