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'''Baqofa''' (also, '''Baqofah''' or '''Bakofa''' or '''Bakopa''' or '''Baqopa''') ({{lang-syr|ܒܝܬ ܩܘܦܐ}}, {{transl|syr|''Běţ Ợopa''}}) is an a [[Assyrian Chaldean people|AssyrianChaldean]] village in [[Assyrian Chaldean homeland|AssyriaMesopotamia]], northern [[Iraq]] located near [[Batnaya]]. Most of its inhabitants are adherents of the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.baqofa.com/EN/ | title = Baqofa | work = Baqofa.com | accessdate = 2009-04-18 | quote = Baqofa is a very old Assyrian Chaldean village located 15 miles north east of [[Mosul]] and less than two miles from the village of [[Batnaya]], its roots goes back to the Assyrian Babylonian era.| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090405110001/http://www.baqofa.com/en/| archivedate= 5 April 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref><ref>Father Habib.H.AL. Noufaly. ''Baqofah a Grain of Mustard''. Baghdad,Iraq, ST George Chaldean Church, 2002. Chapter1, Page 9, first paragraph says, Baqofah is a Chaldean village. See http://www.baqofa.com/forum/upload/Sarmad/2006-01-17_165158_seed2.bmp.</ref> The village's [[Aramaic]] name may derive from "Beth Qopa" or "Beth Qofa", signifying either the "House of Rods" or "Place of the Skull."<ref name=Baqofa>{{cite web | url = http://www.baqofa.com/EN/ | title = Baqofa | work = Baqofa.com| accessdate = 2009-04-18 | archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090405110001/http://www.baqofa.com/en/| archivedate= 5 April 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref>
==History==
The area is believed to have been settled for thousands of years, dating back to the [[Assyrian Babylonian Empire]] era; in 1852, an archaeological dig uncovered artifacts with [[Cuneiform script]].<ref name=Baqofa/> The earliest historical reference to the village dates to the 7th century, in ''Life of Rabban Hormizd the Persian.''<ref name=Wilmshurst/> Notable historical events have included devastating raids by [[Mongol]]s in 1436 and 1508, an attack by [[Persia]]n king [[Nader Shah]] in 1743, and an attack launched under order of the [[Kurd]]ish governor of Rawandz in 1833.<ref name=Baqofa/> An 1852 document indicated that in 1850 approximately families residing in the village attended its single church.<ref>{{cite book | title = The Nestorians and their rituals | last = Badger | first = George Percy | publisher = Masters | year = 1852 | volume = 2 | page = 153 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Oo8AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA174&dq=Bakofa+Chaldean&client=firefox-a#PPA174,M1}}</ref>
Notable author and bishop [[Eugene Manna|Jacques-Eugene (Ogein) Manna]], also known as "Ya'qob Awgin Manna",<ref name=Wilmshurst>{{cite book | title = The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913: Subs. 104 | first = David | last = Wilmshurst | publisher = Peeters Publishers | year = 2000 | isbn = 90-429-0876-9 | page = 238}}</ref> whose ''Aramaic-Arabic Dictionary'' was first published in 1900 and was reprinted as recently as 2006,<ref>{{cite book | title = The Syro-Aramaic reading of the Koran: a contribution to the decoding of the language of the Koran | first = Christoph | last = Luxenberg | publisher = Verlag Hans Schiler | year = 2007 | isbn = 3-89930-088-2 | page = 21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Chaldean-Arabic Dictionary | first = Eugene | last = Manna | publisher = Gorgias Press, LLC | year = 2006 | isbn = 1-59333-552-0}}</ref> was born in the village in 1867.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.gorgiaspress.com/BOOKSHOP/pc-55819-94-manna-eugene-chaldean-arabic-dictionary.aspx | title = Manna, Eugene. Chaldean-Arabic Dictionary | publisher = Gorgiaspress | accessdate = 2009-04-15}}</ref><ref>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bmanna|Bishop Jacques-Eugene Manna|21 January 2015}}</ref>
==Modern village==
The modern [[agricultural]] village consists of about 80 brick, cement or stone houses, with approximately 1,000 inhabitants. The population of Baqofah are all [[Assyrian Chaldean people|AssyrianChaldean]] followers of the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]] who speak [[Neo-Aramaic]].<ref name=Baqofa/>
==References==
[[Category:Populated places in Nineveh Governorate]]
[[Category:Assyrian Chaldean settlements]]
