Beban
Bêban
بيبان
Village
Beban is located in Iraq
Beban
Beban
Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 36°41′55″N 43°9′7″E / 36.69861°N 43.15194°E / 36.69861; 43.15194
Country Iraq
Region Kurdistan Region (de facto)
GovernorateNineveh Governorate (de jure)
Dohuk Governorate (de facto)
DistrictTel Kaif District

Beban (Arabic: بيبان, Kurdish: بێبان, romanized: Bêban)[1][2] is a village located in the Tel Kaif District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The village is located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southeast of Alqosh in the Nineveh Plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.[3][4] Beban has exclusively Yazidi population.[4]

Etymology

The name Beban is derived from the Assyrian "Beth-Bane".[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written. Categories, Transmission, Scripturalisation and Canonisation of the Yezidi Oral Religious Texts". 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ↑ "نڤيسينگه‌ها لالش بێبان سميناره‌ك لدۆر هه‌ڤژينيا پێش وه‌خت گێرا" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ↑ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-13. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  4. 1 2 3 "The Struggle to Exist - Part I: An Introduction to the Assyrians and their Human Rights Situation in the New Iraq" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization. February 2010. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
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