The name is said to derive from Persian barda-dān ("place of prisoners"), perhaps a reference to the settlement of Jewish exiles in Babylonia.
[1] According to the Arab geographers, it was located east of the Tigris river about 15 miles (24 km) due north of Baghdād.
It lay on the road to Sāmarrā and beside the Khāliṣ canal, a branch of the Nahrawān.
Eventually, a gate, a street, a bridge and a cemetery in eastern Baghdād were named after Baradān.
By about 1300, when the Maraṣīd al-iṭṭilāʿ, an abridgement of the encyclopedia of Yāḳūt, was compiled, Baradān was in ruins and completely uninhabited.