Badra
Badra is a town in eastern Iraq in Wasit Governorate, near the Iranian border. It is populated by Arabs and Turkmen, and more recently by Kurds after their migration from western Iran.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Iraq
- Also known as: “Badra - بدرة”, “Badra, Badrah, Badrai, Bedrah, Bedrai, بدرة, Badra, Badrah, Badrai, Bedrah, Bedrai, بدرة”, “Badra, Iraq”, “Badrah”, “Badrai”, “Bedrah”, and “Bedrai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Der.
Der
Ruins
Photo: Zunkir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Der but more recent scholarship has rebutted that. The principal god of Der was Ištaran. In the 1st millennium BC, he was also referred to as Anu rabû in Akkadian. The name of his temple at Der was Edimgalkalama.
Badra
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Badra District, Wasit Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.11462° or 33° 6′ 53″ northLongitude
45.93235° or 45° 55′ 56″ eastElevation
60 metres (197 feet)Open location code
8H574W7J+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2483984445OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Badra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البدرة”
- Arabic: “بدرة”
- Arabic: “بدره”
- Catalan: “Badaraya”
- Catalan: “Badra”
- Catalan: “Bayt Daraya”
- Central Kurdish: “بەدرە، واسیت”
- Dutch: “Badra”
- French: “Badra”
- Galician: “Badra”
- German: “Badra”
- Irish: “Badra”
- Japanese: “バドラ”
- Kurdish: “Bedre”
- Persian: “بدره”
- Russian: “Бадра”
- South Azerbaijani: “بدره”
- Spanish: “Badra”
- Uzbek: “Badra”
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Highlights include دائرة بريد واتصالات بدرة and مديرية شرطة بدرة.
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