Bardarash

The Kurdish name of the town is derived from "ber" ("stone" in Kurdish) and "reş" ("black" in Kurdish), and thus translates to "black stone",{{sfnp|Chyet|2003|pp=36, 509}} whereas the Arabic name ʿAshā'ir al-Sabaʿ translates to "seven clans" in reference to the seven clans that reside at Bardarash: the Zangana, Darbazi, Bot, Razgary, Gezh, Chopani, and the Řožbayānī.{{sfnp|Findahl|2019|pp=66–67}}

In the aftermath of the First World War, Ismāʿīl Agha and Ḥājjī Agha were noted as the tribal leaders of the ʿAshā'ir al-Sabaʿ by British intelligence at the onset of the British administration of Iraq.{{sfnp|Zaken|2007|p=63}} Ismāʿīl Agha was the head of the Bizaini section of ʿAshā'ir al-Sabaʿ and was known to be pro-British.{{sfnp|Zaken|2007|p=160}} He suffered considerably due to the proximity of the Assyrian refugee camp at Mindan in 1920 and his rivalry with Ḥājjī ʿAbdallāh ibn Raḥmān of Jujjar in the Aqra district was observed in a British intelligence report in 1923.{{sfnp|Zaken|2007|p=160}}

In 1997, 79 villages were recorded as part of the Bardarash subdistrict with a total population of 47,564 people.{{sfnp|Stansfield|2003|p=187}} A camp was established at Bardarash for Iraqis displaced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and was later semi-decommissioned in December 2017.{{cite web |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/covid-19-impact-assessment-bardarash-refugee-camp-iraq-july-2020|title=COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Bardarash refugee camp - Iraq (July 2020)|website=ReliefWeb|access-date=4 September 2021|date=20 Oct 2020}} The camp was reopened for refugees in October 2019, and over 7000 Kurds from northern Syria who had fled the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria arrived within a week.{{cite web |url=https://news.sky.com/story/syrian-refugees-being-charged-hundreds-of-dollars-each-to-cross-border-into-iraq-11842120|title=Syrian refugees being charged hundreds of dollars each to cross border into Iraq|website=Sky News|access-date=4 September 2021|date=22 October 2019|author=Alix Culbertson}} The camp's population grew to an estimated 11,000 refugees by November, of whom roughly 75% were women and children,{{cite web |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/inside-refugee-camp-where-syrias-kurds-await-their-fates|title=Inside the Bardarash refugee camp, Syria's Kurds await their fate|website=Middle East Eye|access-date=4 September 2021|date=20 November 2019|author=Elizabeth Hagedorn}} and reached 14,031 refugees by July 2020. By June 2021, 13,986 refugees had left after having obtained residency permits in the Kurdistan Region whilst 1488 had returned to Syria, leaving 3541 at the camp.{{cite web |url=https://syriadirect.org/bardarash-camp-in-iraqi-kurdistan-those-who-remain-behind/|title=Bardarash camp in Iraqi Kurdistan: Those who remain behind|website=Syria Direct|access-date=28 October 2021|date=20 June 2021|author=Alicia Medina}}

File:Bardarash traditional.jpg|Man from Bardarash in traditional attire

File:Bardarash mosque.jpg|Mosque at Bardarash

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• {{cite book | last1 =Chyet | first1 = Michael L. |date=2003|title=Kurdish–English Dictionary|publisher=Yale University Press}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Findahl| first1 = Jon|date=2019|title=Forensic Linguistics: Asylum-seekers, Refugees and Immigrants|publisher=Vernon Press|editor1=I. M. Nick|chapter=Collecting contemporary knowledge on Gorani spoken east of Mosul|pages=57–74}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Stansfield| first1 = Gareth R. V. |date=2003|title=Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy|publisher=Routledge}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Zaken| first1 =Mordechai|date=2007|title=Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival|publisher=Brill}}

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Category:Populated places in Dohuk Province

Category:Kurdish settlements in Iraq

Category:Populated places in Nineveh Governorate

Category:Subdistricts of Iraq