From the 25th century BCE to the 15th century BCE the area was inhabited by non-Semitic Subarians and Hurrians. In the 15th century BCE the Assyrians conquered the region after the fall of the Mittanian Empire and ruled until the 7th century BCE. Under the rule of Assyrians it was renamed Nohadra (and also Bit Nuhadra or Naarda). It became part of the Median Empire but later came under the control of the Persian empire. During Parthian-Sassanid period,Beth Nuhadra was part of Adiabene. During the Christian era it became an eparchy within the Church of the East's metropolitanate of Ḥadyab (Erbil).