Badra is a town in eastern Iraq in Wasit Governorate, near the Iranian border. It is populated by Arabs and Turkmen, and more recently by Kurds after their migration from western Iran. Badra was previously inhabited by majority Arabs and minority Turkmen who lived also near Jassan and Zurbatiyah The Ottoman treaty of 1639 identifies the three settlement…Badra is a town in eastern Iraq in Wasit Governorate, near the Iranian border. It is populated by Arabs and Turkmen, and more recently by Kurds after their migration from western Iran. Badra was previously inhabited by majority Arabs and minority Turkmen who lived also near Jassan and Zurbatiyah The Ottoman treaty of 1639 identifies the three settlements of Jassan, Badra and Zurbatiyah as being part of the Ottoman empire. This arrangement left Zurbatiyah on the Ottoman side and rejected the Banu Lam's tenuous assertions to Bayat and Dehloran which split the Arab tribes living there. Feyli Kurds migrated during the 19th century under Safavid Iran HursidPpasha explained the heightened presence of Feyli Kurds was relatively recent as before the rule of Davud mamluk pasha, Baghdad's governors had oppressed the regions original Arab inhabitants, forcing them to sell land to the Feyli Kurds. Most of Zurbatiya and Bardah were Sunni Shafi'i, with minority Shia Muslims. Their language is unique, noted as being Turkish mixed with Arabic, Kurdish and Persian. In 1847, the Ottomans acquired Badra as part of a treaty with Persia, which re-instated the Arab and Turkmen population up until the early 21st century.
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