Beth Daraye
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Beth Daraye (meaning "land of Dara"), known in Arabic sources as Badaraya, was a region and administrative site southeast of the lower Nahrawan Canal, in the Sasanian province of Asoristan in present-day Iraq. 150km east-southeast of Baghdad. It lay between al-Bandanijayn and the environs of Waset and produced excellent dried dates.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Morony, Michael (1989). "BĒṮ DARAYĒ". Encyclopaedia Iranica. IV, Fasc. 2: 186–187.
- ^ Houtsma, M. Th (1987). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936. Vol. 1. Brill. p. 561. ISBN 9789004082656.