Ba'adra

Ba'adra
Ba'adra; Baedrê, باعەدرێ
	Town
	Ba'adra Location in Iraq
	Coordinates: 36°43′05″N 43°15′15″E
Country	Iraq
Region	Kurdistan Region
Governorate	Dohuk Governorate
District	Shekhan District
Government
• Mayor	Shamal M. Adeeb[1]

Ba'adra (also written Baadre, Badra or Bathra, (Arabic: باعدرة/باعذرة‎, Kurdish: باعەدرێ ,Baedrê‎[2][3]) is a Yazidi town located in the Shekhan District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The town is located in the Nineveh plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.

Ba'adra's residents are mostly Yazidis and is considered the political capital of the Yazidis[1] as it has been the base of the group's leader, the Mir.[4]

Yazidi cemetery in Ba'adra

Yazidi temple (Quba Haji Ali) in Ba'adra

History

The village was originally an Assyrian village known as Bet Edrai.[5]

In Ba'athist Iraq, the population of Ba'adra was deported because of their support for Peshmerga.[6]

In 2014 the city and its surrounding 10 villages took in 2,028 additional displaced families totaling 12,115 people due to the Yazidi fleeing the Sinjar massacre according to Shamal Adeeb, the city's mayor at the time.[1]

References

Melchior, Jillian Kay (September 19, 2014). "Escape from Mount Sinjar". National Review. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
"Li nêzîkî Şêxanê 5 kesên ji malbatekê canê xwe ji dest dan". Rûdaw (in Kurdish). 6 June 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
"چەند پرۆژەیەک لە باعەدرێ جێبەجێ دەکرێن". Kurdistan Democratic Party (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
Allison, Christine (2004-02-20). "Yazidis i: General". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved August 20, 2010. There are probably some 200,000–300,000 Yazidis worldwide.
Wilmhurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organization of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. p. 203.
"Yezidi Identity Politics and Political Ambitions in the Wake of the ISIS Attack". Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. 20 (5): 427. 2018. doi:10.1080/19448953.2018.1406689.

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[nrw-1] Melchior, Jillian Kay (September 19, 2014). "Escape from Mount Sinjar". National Review. Retrieved October 7, 2014.

[2] "Li nêzîkî Şêxanê 5 kesên ji malbatekê canê xwe ji dest dan". Rûdaw (in Kurdish). 6 June 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.

[3] "چەند پرۆژەیەک لە باعەدرێ جێبەجێ دەکرێن". Kurdistan Democratic Party (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.

[4] Allison, Christine (2004-02-20). "Yazidis i: General". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved August 20, 2010. There are probably some 200,000–300,000 Yazidis worldwide.

[5] Wilmhurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organization of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. p. 203.

[6] "Yezidi Identity Politics and Political Ambitions in the Wake of the ISIS Attack". Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. 20 (5): 427. 2018. doi:10.1080/19448953.2018.1406689.