Beth Daraye

Map of the southwestern part of the Sasanian Empire.

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.

Sources

Morony, Michael (1989). "BĒṮ DARAYĒ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 2. p. 186.

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