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| name = Ba'adra
| native_name = {{lang-ku|‘Eyn Sifnî}}
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Nineveh Province|Nineveh]]
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Shekhan District|Shekhan]]
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| leader_name = Shamal M. Adeeb<ref name=nrw/>
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'''Ba'adra''', also rendered '''Baadre''','''Badra''' and '''Bathra''', ({{lang-ar|باعدرة/باعذرة}}, {{lang-syr|ܒܝܬ ܥܕܪܐ}}), is an historically [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] town located in the [[Shekhan District]] of the [[Ninawa Governorate]] in northern [[Iraq]]. Ba'adra's residents are mostly [[Kurd]]s (Yezidies)with a small [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] minority and is considered the political capital of the Yazidis<ref name=nrw>{{cite news|last1=Melchior|first1=Jillian Kay|title=Escape from Mount Sinjar|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388388/escape-mount-sinjar-jillian-kay-melchior|accessdate=October 7, 2014|work=National Review|date=September 19, 2014}}</ref> as it has been the base of the ethnic-regilous group's leader, the Mir.<ref>{{cite web |first=Christine |last=Allison |date=2004-02-20 |accessdate=August 20, 2010 |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/yazidis-i-general-1 |title=Yazidis i: General |work=[[Encyclopædia Iranica]] |quote=There are probably some 200,000–300,000 Yazidis worldwide.}}</ref>

The town and the surrounding villages were demolished and later recolonised by Arabs during the late 1960s. Most of Arabs, however, returned to their original settlements after 2003.{{cite needed|date=October 2014}}

The town and the 10 nearby villages took in 2,028 additional displaced families totaling 12,115 people due to the Yazidi fleeing the [[Sinjar massacre]].<ref name=nrw/>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Nineveh Plains}}

[[Category:Populated places in Nineveh Governorate]]
[[Category:Assyrian settlements]]
[[Category:Yazidis in Iraq]]

{{Iraq-geo-stub}}

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