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Beban Bêbanبيبان
Village
BebanLocation in Iraq
Coordinates: 36°41′55″N 43°9′7″E / 36.69861°N 43.15194°E / 36.69861; 43.15194
Country	Iraq
Region	Kurdistan Region (de facto)
Governorate	Nineveh Governorate (de jure) Dohuk Governorate (de facto)
District	Tel Kaif District

Beban (Arabic: بيبان, Kurdish: بێبان, romanized: Bêban) is a village located in the Tel Kaif District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The village is located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) southeast of Alqosh in the Nineveh Plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq. Beban has exclusively Yazidi population.

Etymology

The name Beban is derived from the Assyrian "Beth-Bane".

References

1. "The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written. Categories, Transmission, Scripturalisation and Canonisation of the Yezidi Oral Religious Texts". 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. "نڤيسينگه‌ها لالش بێبان سميناره‌ك لدۆر هه‌ڤژينيا پێش وه‌خت گێرا" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
3. Saadi Azuo, Heerish (June 2016). "Graduate school of social sciences general psychology master's programme: Post-traumatic stress disorder among Ezidian women who escaped from ISIS capture" (PDF). Near East University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-13. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
4. ^ "The Struggle to Exist - Part I: An Introduction to the Assyrians and their Human Rights Situation in the New Iraq" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization. February 2010. Retrieved 2018-12-05.

v t e Nineveh Plains in Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq
Main settlements	Al-Hamdaniya District Qaraqosh Bartella Karamlesh Bashiqa Bahzani Tel Kaif District Tel Keppe Alqosh Batnaya Tesqopa Baqofa Sharafiya Bozan Khatarah Shekhan District Ain Sifni Dashqotan Qasrok Ba'adra
Religious sites	Christian Chaldean Catholic Church Rabban Hormizd Monastery (640) Mar Oraha Monastery (6th century) Tomb of Prophet Nahum Syriac Catholic Church Mar Behnam Monastery (4th century) Syriac Orthodox Church Mar Mattai Monastery (363) Monastery of Saint John of Dailam (7th century) Yazidis Lalish (1414)
Archaeological sites	Balawat Shibaniba Nimrud Dur-Sharrukin Tell Arpachiyah Tepe Gawra
See also	Peshmerga Nineveh Plain Protection Units Nineveh Plain Forces Qaraqosh Protection Committee Dwekh Nawsha

• Populated places in Nineveh Governorate
• Yazidi populated places in Iraq
• Historic Assyrian communities in Iraq