Babirah

Babirah (Arabic: بابيرة‎, Kurdish: بابیرێ ,Babîrê‎)[1][2] is a village located in the Tel Kaif District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The village is located ca. 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southwest of Telskuf in the Nineveh plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.[3][4]

Babirah

Babira

بابيرة
Village
Babirah
Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 36°32′37″N 43°1′27″E
Country Iraq
GovernorateNinawa
DistrictTel Kaif District

Babirah is populated by Yazidis.[4]

History
Yazidi temple (Şexsê Batê) in Babirah[5]
It was destroyed by ISIS in 2014, but rebuilt when the village was repopulated again by Yazidis

The village was originally an Assyrian village known as Bet Bore before it was settled by Yazidis and was known to contain an Assyrian population up until at least the 13th century.[6]

References
  1. "هۆلا لالش ل كۆمەلگەها بابیرێ‌ هاتە نووژەنكرن" (in Kurdish). Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. "Ji ber Heşda Şeibî 6 qutabxaneyên kurdên êzîdî li Babîrê hatin girtin" (in Kurdish). 4 November 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. "Bābirah populated place, Nīnawá, Iraq". iq.geoview.info. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  4. Saadi Azuo, Heerish (June 2016). "Graduate school of social sciences general psychology master's programme: Post-traumatic stress disorder among Ezidian women who escaped from ISIS capture" (PDF). Near East University. p. 10. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  5. Spät, Eszter. "Kurdish Studies - Persecution and the Development of Yezidi Ritual Life". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Wilmhurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organization of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. p. 201.
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