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Badarash (or Ashewa) is an Assyrian village in the Dohuk province of Iraqi Kurdistan. The village of Badarash is located 1.5 kilometres west of the centre of Sarsink, and has two small lakes in the western part of the town which go down into a chasm below the village. The towns name comes from the Kurdish word meaning “the Black Air”, and apparently enough Badarash has heavy, cold winds and snowy winters.
Most of the village’s houses are built from traditional materials like stone and mud, while others are built from stone and cement. Unlike many Assyrian villages, this one was never evacuated- so therefore many of its original buildings are still intact. And even after some of the houses and fields got burned and destroyed, the owners just rebuilt them. Some residents moved to Duhok and Baghdad, but the majority of them continued to stay in Badarash.