Bandwaya is a village located in the Tel Keppe District of Ninawa Province, Iraq.

The village's name is a Syriac contraction of "Bet Handwaya" meaning "house [land of] the Indian.

"[1] The first mention of Bandwaya occurred in a 12th-century manuscript written by a priest named Ishaq from the town of Baa'shika, in which a blind man from "Behendwaya village" was recorded.

Assyrians from Alqosh were known to have settled in Bandwaya.

The village existed as such up until being occupied by Arabs in the 1970s.