Yünlüce, Lice
Yünlüce | |
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Yünlüce Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 38°28′04″N 40°43′31″E / 38.4678°N 40.7254°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Diyarbakır |
| District | Lice |
| Population (2022) | 298 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Yünlüce (Kurdish: Melê; Syriac: Mlaḥso)[1][a] is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Lice, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.[3][4] It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 298 in 2022.[5][6]
Etymology
It has been suggested that the village's name in Kurdish and Syriac is derived from mālaḥtā ("saltworks" or "salt garden" in Syriac).[7]
History
Mlaḥso (today called Yünlüce) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[8] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 34 households, who paid 79 dues, and was served by the Church of Mortī Šmūnī and two priests.[9] Outside of the village there were churches of Mar Tuma, Mar Eliyo, and Nǎbi Yawnan.[10] In 1914, it was populated by 800 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[11] It had 200–300 Christian families, including Armenians and Syriacs, all of whom spoke the Mlaḥsô language.[12] The village was destroyed and almost all of the villagers were killed by Muslim Kurds from the neighbouring villages amidst the Sayfo.[13] The name of the village was consequently Turkified to Yünlüce.[10]
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ Al-Jeloo (2019), p. 367.
- ^ Bcheiry (2019), p. 57; Bednarowicz (2018), p. 376; Jastrow (1994), p. 2.
- ^ "Neighbourhoods in Lice District". Turkish Government. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ Malmîsanij (1989), p. 54.
- ^ Jastrow (1994), p. 2.
- ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 316.
- ^ Bcheiry (2009), p. 67.
- ^ a b Jastrow (1994), p. 1.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 423.
- ^ Jastrow (1994), p. 3.
- ^ Bednarowicz (2018), p. 376; Talay (2017), p. 139.
Bibliography
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- Bcheiry, Iskandar (2009). The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Register of Dues of 1870: An Unpublished Historical Document from the Late Ottoman Period. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- Bcheiry, Iskandar (2019). "Digitizing and Schematizing the Archival Material from the Late Ottoman Period Found in the Monastery of al-Zaʿfarān in Southeast Turkey". Atla Summary of Proceedings. 72 (January): 50–61. doi:10.31046/proceedings.2018.113. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- Bednarowicz, Sebastian (2018). "Before and After Linguicide: a Linguistic Aspect of the Sayfo". In Shabo Talay; Soner g. Barthoma (eds.). Sayfo 1915: An Anthology of Essays on the Genocide of Assyrians/Arameans during the First World War. Gorgias Press. pp. 365–384.
- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Jastrow, Otto (1994). Der neuaramäische Dialekt von Mlaḥsô (in German). Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle, eds. (2012). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915. Brill. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- Malmîsanij, Mehemed (1989). Pîro; Baran; Şêxbizinî (eds.). "Bazı yörelerde Dımıli ve Kurmanci lehçelerinin köylere göre dağılımı - III -". Berhem (in Turkish). 4: 54. ISSN 1100-0910.
- Talay, Shabo (2017). "Sayfo, Firman, Qafle: The First World War from the Perspective of Syriac Christians". In David Gaunt; Naures Atto; Soner O. Barthoma (eds.). Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide against the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire (PDF). pp. 132–147. Retrieved 6 November 2024.