Gercüş (Kurdish: Kercoz;[2][nb 1] Syriac: Kfar-Gawze)[nb 2] is a town and seat of the Gercüş District of Batman Province in Turkey. The town is populated by Kurds of the Kercoz tribe and had a population of 6,064 in 2021.[6][1]
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  Gercüş Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 37°33′59″N 41°23′04″E / 37.56639°N 41.38444°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Batman |
| Population (2021)[1] | 6,064 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Website | www.gercus.bel.tr |
History
editAccording to the Life of Jacob of Ṣalaḥ, Kfar-Gawze (today called Gercüş) was founded by a wealthy Roman soldier named Gawson prior to Jacob's death in 421 AD.[7] Gawson had been forced to leave Ṣalaḥ after it was discovered that his daughter had committed adultery with his servant Decius.[7]
In 1914, Kfar-Gawze was inhabited by 150 Assyrians, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[8] It was located in the kaza of Midyat.[9] There were thirty Assyrian families in 1915.[10] It was populated by Syriac Orthodox Christians, Chaldean Catholics, and Muslims.[11] Amidst the Sayfo, despite initially having promised to help and protect the Assyrians, the local Kurdish agha Yusuf Hasan Shamdin took some men from Kfar-Gawze to a place called Zaghore, robbed them, and then threw them in a river.[12] The remaining Assyrians were made to do forced labour and many fled to Midyat.[13] The Mhallami Şeyh Fethullah forced the release of the captive Assyrian women and children.[14]
In 1960, the population was 2354.[4] There were 90 Kurdish-speaking Christians in twelve families at Kfar-Gawze in 1966.[4] By 1987, there were no remaining Assyrians.[10]
Neighbourhoods
editThe town is divided into the neighbourhoods of Bağlarbaşı, Çukurçeşme, Pınarbaşı and Yolağzı.[15]
References
editNotes
Citations
- ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ Tan (2011), p. 110.
- ^ Avcıkıran (2009), p. 56; Ritter (1967), p. 11; Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 320; Travis (2018), p. 185; Gaunt (2006), p. 233; Atto (2011), p. 174.
- ^ a b c Ritter (1967), p. 11.
- ^ Palmer (1990), p. 264; Atto (2011), p. 174; Courtois (2004), p. 227.
- ^ Tan (2011), p. 172.
- ^ a b Palmer (1990), p. 54.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 233, 427.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 427.
- ^ a b Courtois (2004), p. 227.
- ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 249; Gaunt (2006), p. 233.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 233; Travis (2018), p. 185.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 233.
- ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 249; Gaunt (2006), pp. 233–234.
- ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
Bibliography
edit- Atto, Naures (2011). Hostages in the Homeland, Orphans in the Diaspora: Identity Discourses Among the Assyrian/Syriac Elites in the European Diaspora (PDF). Leiden University Press. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Turkish and Kurdish).
- Courtois, Sébastien de (2004). The Forgotten Genocide: Eastern Christians, The Last Arameans. Translated by Vincent Aurora. Gorgias Press.
- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle (2012). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915. Brill.
- Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur Abdin. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- Ritter, Hellmut (1967). Turoyo: Die Volkssprache der Syrischen Christen des Tur 'Abdin (in German). Vol. 1. Franz Steiner Verlag.
- Tan, Altan (2011). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye: Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). Nûbihar.
- Travis, Hannibal, ed. (2018). The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies (PDF). Routledge. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
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