Baqofah
Baqofah | |
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Village | |
Tel Kaif District | |
Sub-district | Tel Keppe |
Baqofah (
In the village, there is a Chaldean Catholic church of Mar Gewargis.[2]
Etymology
Several theories have been put forward for the origin of the name of the village as the French Syriacist Jean Maurice Fiey argues it is derived from "beth" ("place" in Syriac) and "qōpé" ("wooded" in Syriac), and thus translates to "wooded place".[4] Alternatively, it is suggested the name is either a combination of "beth" and "quba" ("baskets" in Syriac) and translate to "place of baskets" or "beth" and "qupa" ("monkey" in Syriac), and thus translate to "place of [the] monkey".[3]
History
Baqofah is located atop two tells, of which the largest is partially covered by the village graveyard.[4] Whilst the French archaeologist Victor Place's survey found only the remains of jars in the early 19th century, others found several tombs containing an iron cuirass, sword, and dagger inlaid with gold.[4] In addition, a sculpted panel depicting a man killing a lion and a cylinder with a cuneiform inscription was also discovered.[4] Baqofah itself is first mentioned with the name Beṯ Qōpā in the Life of Rabban Hormizd in the seventh century AD as one of the villages that donated funds towards the construction of the Rabban Hormizd Monastery.[5][6]
The village had a mixed Christian and Muslim population until the eighteenth century, when the Muslim villagers left to found a village of the same name nearby.
In 1850, Baqofah was visited by the English missionary
In early August 2014, Baqofah was abandoned as its population fled the
Notable people
- Eugene Manna (1867–1928), Chaldean Catholic bishop
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ "باقوفا". Ishtar TV (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "The Mar Gorgis Church in Baqofa". Mesopotamia Heritage. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ a b "Baqufa". Ishtar TV. Translated by Aziz Emmanuel Zebari. 25 October 2012. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d Fiey (1975), p. 379.
- ^ a b c d e Fiey (1975), p. 380.
- ^ a b c d Wilmshurst (2000), p. 237.
- ^ a b Mindy Belz (3 April 2015). "Battle Ready: Assyrians and Kurds Holding Off ISIS in North Iraq". Assyrian International News Agency. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ a b Wilmshurst (2000), p. 199.
- ^ a b "Population Project". Shlama Foundation. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ Jennifer Percy (11 August 2015). "At War in the Garden of Eden". The New Republic. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ Christa Pongratz-Lippitt (28 June 2017). "Catholic groups help to return Christians to Nineveh Plain". The Tablet. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
Bibliography
- Fiey, Jean Maurice (1975). Assyrie Chrétienne (in French). Vol. 2. Imprimerie Catholique de Beyrouth. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.