Baadre
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 43 ′ N , 43 ° 15 ′ E | ||
| Country |
 Iraq
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| Governorate | Ninawa | ||
| District | Sheikhan | ||
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| height | 496 m | ||
| Residents | 14,000 | ||
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Baadre ( Arabic باعدرة / باعذرة, Aramaic ܒܝܬ ܥܕܪܐ, Kurmanji Baedrê, dt Pronunciation. Ba'adre ) is a small Yezidi town in the north of Iraq . The city is located in the Sheikhan district south of the Lalisch Valley in the Ninawa governorate . The place is located in the Nineveh Plain and is one of the disputed areas of Northern Iraq .
history
Like the entire Sheikhan region and the entire Ninawa province, Baadre has been one of the disputed areas of northern Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 .
population
To the population Baadre's mainly include Yazidis . Some Kurds and Arabs also live in the city. Baadre has approximately 8,000 Yezidi refugees from Sinjar added.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hope in ruins . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).
- ^ Otmar Oehring: Christians and Yazidis in Iraq: Current Situation and Perspectives. In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation. P. 92 , accessed November 30, 2018 .
- ^ Human Rights Watch. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Northern Iraq: It's only a few kilometers to the front . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).