Barqa'id

Barqaid was a town on the caravan road between Mosul and Nisibis, across the plains of northern Mesopotamia. Medieval writers placed it between Ba'aynatha and Adhrama, among the stations that guided travellers along the route. Al-Muhallabi described a walled town with many markets, a sign of its importance to passing traffic and the surrounding district. The road joined the Tigris country to Nisibis and the cities farther west.