page_title: Babirah
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Babirah / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Shrine of Shekhse Bate in Babera village near Fayidah between Duhok and Mosul. It was destroyed by ISIS in 2014, but rebuilt when the village was repopulated again by Yezidis.
context_page_description: Babirah is a Yazidi village located in the Tel Kaif District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The village is located ca. 15 kilometres southwest of Telskuf in the Nineveh plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq. Babirah has exclusively Yazidi population.
context_section_description: The village was originally an Assyrian village known as Bet Bore before it was settled by Yazidis and was known to contain an Assyrian population up until at least the 13th century.
caption: Yazidi temple (Şexsê Batê) in Babirah[5]
  It was destroyed by ISIS in 2014, but rebuilt when the village was repopulated again by Yazidis
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