Baiyaa

Baiyaa (Bayaa’) (Arabic,البياع) is a middle-class district in western Baghdad, Iraq along the Baghdad Airport Road. It contains separate Sunni and Shiite enclaves within it. It has been calm during the Iraq War, but many stores have closed and both Shiite and Sunni families from Baiyaa have fled the neighborhood in May 2007 as violence increased.

The name of this city is given because the land was owned by one of the famous man named MR.Ali Al Baiyaa, this city is built in the period 1950 and 1960 and the engineering who drew the ways and roads gave the city special characteristic that he made the roads into longitudinal lines from one to twenty. This city contain a big and good commercial market which is located in the street No.20,also it contains all the facility like health center,Police station,Cort,mosques,church,clubs and youth center. The location of the city in the south west of Baghdad and it represent one of the main centers of Baghdad city.

References

• Hendawi, Hamza (10 May 2007). "Signs of sectarian conflict emerging in once calm oasis despite security crackdown in Baghdad". North County Times. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2013. 

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