Bebadi ( syr, ܒܝܬܒܝܕܥ, Beth Bede, ku, بێباد, translit=Bêbadê) is a village in

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. It is located in the

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in the district of

Amadiya Amedi or Amadiya ( ku, ئامێدی, Amêdî, ; Syriac: , Amədya), is a town in the Duhok Governorate of Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is built on a mesa in the broader Great Zab river valley. Etymology According to Ali ibn al-Athir, the name ...

. In the village, there is a church of

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Shmune.

History

The church of Mart Shmune was first constructed in the 6th century. A

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community at Bebadi is attested in the 10th-century ''Life'' of Rabban Joseph Busnaya. The village was visited by the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in the late 1840s. In 1850, 20 Nestorian families inhabited Bebadi, and had one priest and one functioning church as part of the diocese of Berwari. The Anglican missionary William Ainger Wigram established a school in the village in 1908. A number of villagers had converted to Chaldean Catholicism by 1913. The village was the residence of

Shimun XXI Eshai Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII ( syr, ܡܪܝ ܐܝܫܝ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܟܓ.) (26 February 1908 – 6 November 1975), sometimes known as Mar Eshai Shimun XXI, Mar Shimun XXIII Ishaya, Mar Shimun Ishai, or Simon Jesse,Foster, p. 34 served as the 119th Catholico ...

, Patriarch of the Church of the East, after his relocation from Quchanis in

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in 1927, to his exile to

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in 1933, in which year 250 Assyrians inhabited Bebadi, according to a report by the

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. By 1938, the population had dropped to 36 people, with 10 families, but rose to 480 people by the time of the Iraqi census of 1957. Bebadi was destroyed by Zebari Kurds during the

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in 1961, and its population of 100 families was forced to flee. The village was partially restored when some villagers returned in 1963, but was destroyed again during the Al-Anfal campaign in 1987, displacing 75 families. 30 families returned after the establishment of the

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in the aftermath of the

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. By 2011, the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs had constructed 43 houses and a hall, and developed the village's infrastructure.

Notable people

* Shlimon Bet Shmuel (b. 1950), Assyrian singer

Gallery

Image:IraqvillageBabadeyy.JPG, The village school

References

Notes Citations

Bibliography

* * * * * * * {{cite book , last1 =Wilmshurst, first1 =David, date=2000, title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913, publisher=Peeters Publishers Populated places in Dohuk Province Assyrian communities in Iraq