Baqofah

Baqofah (Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܩܘܦܐ,[1] Arabic: باقوفا)[2][nb 1] is a village in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq.

[8] In 1850, Baqofah was visited by the English missionary George Percy Badger, who recorded the village's population as 20 Chaldean Catholic families and noted they were served by one priest and one church as part of the diocese of Mosul.

[6] From 1864 to 1870, Jerome Simon Sindjari of Tel Keppe, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Tehran, resided at Baqofah and served as its priest; he also restored one of the doors of the church of Mar Gewargis in 1868.

[11] Eventually, the village's population was permitted to return after the expulsion of ISIL from the Nineveh Plains and 30 families had resettled at Baqofah by June 2017.

[12] The population of Baqofah briefly found refuge elsewhere in October 2017 due to skirmishes between the Peshmerga and Iraqi government forces.