Kocapınar, Cizre

Kocapınar
Kocapınar
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°17′38″N 42°03′54″E / 37.294°N 42.065°E / 37.294; 42.065
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
DistrictCizre
Population
 (2021)[1]
806
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Kocapınar (Kurdish: Emerîn;[2] Syriac: ʿAmīrīn)[3][a] is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Amara and Meman tribes and had a population of 806 in 2021.[1][6]

History

‘Amīrīn (today called Kocapınar) was historically inhabited by adherents of the Church of the East.[7] The priest and monk Gīwārgīs of ‘Amīrīn is attested at the Monastery of Mār Aḥḥā the Egyptian in 1540.[8] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had seventeen households, who paid thirty dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.[9] In 1914, it was inhabited by 300 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[10] There were 250 Syriac Orthodox Christians and some Chaldean Catholic families.[11] Amidst the Sayfo, on 1 June 1915, most of the Syriacs were taken and killed by the Kurds of the Esene, Mammi, and ‘Alikan tribes.[12] Fifteen families were able to escape under the protection of the Kurdish sheikh ‘Abde from Batelle, who escorted them to Azekh.[11] The village was subsequently seized by Kurds.[13]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as ʿAmrīn, Amrine, ‘Emerin, or Ömerin.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ Baz (2016), p. 26.
  3. ^ Bcheiry (2019), p. 57.
  4. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 328; Gaunt (2006), p. 220; Wilmshurst (2000), p. 111.
  5. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ Baz (2016), pp. 107, 110.
  7. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 111.
  8. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 115.
  9. ^ Bcheiry (2009), p. 58.
  10. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 426.
  11. ^ a b Gaunt (2006), p. 220.
  12. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 220; Courtois (2004), pp. 187–199.
  13. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 392.

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