Sinanköy, Bismil

Sinanköy
Sinanköy
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°51′43″N 40°59′42″E / 37.862°N 40.995°E / 37.862; 40.995
CountryTurkey
ProvinceDiyarbakır
DistrictBismil
Population
 (2022)[1]
1,302
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Sinanköy (Kurdish: Sinanê; Syriac: Sīnānī)[2] is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bismil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.[3] The village is populated by Kurds of the Elmanî tribe and had a population of 1,302 in 2022.[1][4]

History

Sīnānī (today called Sinanköy) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians.[5] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had three households, who paid five dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[2] There were fifty Armenian hearths in 1880.[6] The village had an Armenian church.[6] It was located in the kaza of Beşiri.[2] It is tentatively identified with the village of Sinoné, which was populated by 150 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[7] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Address Based Population Registration System Results". Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Bcheiry (2009), p. 41.
  3. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. ^ "10 bin köylünün 'leydi' hanımağası". Miliyet (in Turkish). 22 July 2002. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  5. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 319; Kévorkian (2011), p. 367.
  6. ^ a b Kévorkian (2006), p. 269.
  7. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 319; Gaunt (2006), p. 427.
  8. ^ Kévorkian (2011), pp. 367–368.

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