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[[File:Dohuk map.svg|right|thumb|240px|Barwar is located in [[Northern Iraq]].]]
'''Barwar''' ({{lang-syr|ܒܪܘܪ}}) also known as '''Barwari''' and '''Barwari Bala''', is a region situated in northern [[Dohuk Governorate]] in [[Iraq]]. The region is populated by [[Kurds]] and [[Assyrians]].

==History==
The mountainous region was part of the [[Adiabene (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province)#The diocese of Beth Nuhadra|diocese of Beth Nuhadra]] (current day [[Dohuk, Iraq|Dohuk]]) since antiquities and have seen a mass migration of Nestorians after the [[Siege of Baghdad (1258)|fall of Baghdad]] in 1258 and [[Timurlane]]'s invasion from central Iraq.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=zHxsWspxGIIC&pg=PA318 Islamic desk reference], E. J. van Donzel</ref>

Its Christian inhabitants were little affected by the Ottoman conquests, however starting from the 19th century [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] [[Emir]]s sought to expand their territories at their expense. In the 1830s Muhammad Rawanduzi, the Emir of [[Soran Emirate|Soran]], tried to forcibly add the region to his dominion pillaging many Assyrian villages. [[Bedr Khan Beg]] of [[Bohtan]] renewed attacks on the region in the 1840s, killing tens of thousands of Assyrians in Barwari and [[Hakkari]] before being ultimately defeated by the [[Ottomans]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dgDi9qFT41oC&pg=PA47 A modern history of the Kurds], David McDowall</ref>

Many Assyrians who survived later suffered in the [[Assyrian Genocide]] by the Ottoman Army and their Kurdish allies during the [[First World War]]; others took refuge in [[Urmia]] led by their patriarch, [[Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin]].<ref>{{citation|last1=Gaunt|first1=David|last2= Beṯ-Şawoce|first2=Jan|title=Massacres, resistance, protectors: Muslim-Christian relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4mug9LrpLKcC&pg=PA32|year=2006|page=32|publisher=Gorgias Press LLC|isbn=978-1-59333-301-0}}</ref> Later attempts for their resettlement in Barwar were largely unsuccessful.<ref>{{citation|last1=Stafford|first1=Ronald Sempill|title=The Tragedy of the Assyrians|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LSzuzsRh37gC&pg=PA32|year=2006|page=41|publisher=Gorgias Press LLC|isbn=978-1-59333-413-0}}</ref>

All of the Barwari Jews left for [[Israel]] shortly after its independence. The region was heavily affected by the Kurdish uprisings during the 1950s and 60s and was largely depopulated during the [[Anfal campaign]] in the 1980s.

==Villages==

===List of Settlements===

*Binavi
* Annoneh (Kani Mase)
* Trwanish
* Bishmeeyayeh
* Dooreh
* Derishke
* Eyit
* Tashish
* Maye
* Jaqla
* Sardashte
* Halwa
* Markajeya
* Baz
* Miska
* Enishke
* Totha Shmiaee
* Khwara
* Malkhtha
* Jededee
* Beqolke
* Jalik
* Eqri
* Hayis
* Bar Tanura (depopulated)

==See also==
*[[Nahla plains]]
*[[Tur Abdin]]
*[[Alqosh]], [[Tel Keppe]] and [[Batnaya]] - Assyrian tribes also in Northern Iraq
*[[Tyari]], [[Jilu]], [[Gawar]] [[Nochiya tribe|Nochiya]] - Assyrian tribes to the north, in [[Hakkari province]], [[Turkey]]

==References==
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[[Category:Assyrian settlements]]