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Hertevin

For the Neo-Aramaic dialect, see Neo-Aramaic dialect of Hertevin.

Hertevin, officially Ekindüzü, (Armenian: Արդվան, Kurdish: Hertevîn[2]) is a village in the Pervari District of Siirt Province in Turkey.[3]

Hertevin
Village
Hertevin is located in Turkey
Hertevin
Hertevin
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°55′26″N 42°21′17″E / 37.924007°N 42.354676°E / 37.924007; 42.354676
CountryTurkey
ProvinceSiirt
DistrictPervari
Population
 (2021)[1]
315
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

It was one of the last Assyrian villages in the country prior to Sayfo.[4] The village is now populated by Kurds of the Şakiran tribe and had a population of 315 in 2021.[1][5]

The hamlet of Yukarı Ekindüzü is attached to the village.[3]

Name

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There is no single correct spelling for the name of the village. Spellings used by sources include Artuvin,[6] Hartiv,[7] Artevna,[8] Hertevina,[6] Hertvin, Hertivin, Hertivinler[6] and Ertevın.[9]

Other Armenian sources call it Artoun, Ertun or Arton.[10]

In Armenian, the village is called Artvan.[11]

Location

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The village is located on a mountainous plateau, in the Turkish region of Southeast Anatolia. It is 30 km west of Pervari, 60 km southwest of Lake Van, 70 km north of the Iranian border, and 68 km north of the Syrian border.

The village is split in two parts.[12]

History

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Ancient history

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The Assyrian king Sennacherib conquered the region in 697 BC, then in the hands of the Urartians.[13]

Assyrian and Armenian era

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There were four Chaldean Catholic churches in the village, including that of Mar Ishak (Saint Isaac) and Mar Giorgis (Saint George).[10] The churches were part of the diocese of Siirt (in Classical Syriac: ܣܥܪܬ) until 1915. In the village of Rabanokan, there was an Armenian Church,[14] known as Surp Asdvadzadzin (en Armenian: Սուրբ Աստուածածին Տաճար, in English Saint Mother of God), also called Surp Sargis (en Armenian: Սուրբ Սարգիս, in English Saint Serge).

During the Ottoman era, the villagers of Hartevin were Rayats of the principality of Bhotan under the authority of the local Kurdish agha,[15] which was somewhat independent of the central government in Constantinople because of the isolation and mountainous nature of the region. The agha owed the residents protection in exchange for the half of the products of their labor.[16] Administratively, the village was in the Sanjak of Siirt in the ancient province of Bitlis Vilayet.

Hartevin was surrounded by many Kurdish villages. Many of these villages had been of Assyrian or Armenian origins and were replaced by Kurdish populations after massacres, and in many cases, the names were changed. The population suffered under the Hamidian massacres committed against Christians in 1895.

In 1909, Rabanok was population by 20 Armenian families. In 1915, Hartevin had a population of 200, in addition to five Armenian families of 45 people in Rabanok,[14] but the village was destroyed during the Armenian Genocide.[17] The Chaldean bishop of the village was assassinated,[18] and the Venezuelan soldier Rafael de Nogales Méndez witnessed the extermination of tens of thousands of Armenians around Siirt.[19]

The fall of 1928 saw the final expulsion of the remaining Armenians to Syria.[20]

With a population of 500 in the 1970s, the population of Hertevin and other Assyrian villages left Turkey from the 1970s into the 1990s, due to violence and discrimination in the region. In 1982, three Christian families remained in the village.[8] Today, most of these people live in the Paris region, mostly in Seine-Saint-Denis, and mainly in Clichy-sous-Bois.[21][22]), with smaller numbers in Germany and Sweden. No Chaldeans remain in the village.

Kurdish era

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At the end of 1994, the village was attacked and partially destroyed by the Turkish army (it was one of 6,000 villages destroyed in the 1990s[23]), in its conflict against the PKK,[24] which continues to result in violence in the region.

In 2011, a textilte factory opened in the village, employing 150 people.[25]

In 2017, there was only a single family remaining who speaks the Hertevin dialect of Aramaic.[10]

Population and culture

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Population history

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Population
Year Inhabitants
1915 200[26]
1965 437[8]
1975 515[11]
1985 406[11]
1990 546[11]
2021 315[1]


Language

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Main article: Neo-Aramaic dialect of Hertevin
 
Residents of Hertevin speak soureth, one of the branches of Eastern Neo-Aramaic.

In addition to the Mouch dialect of Armenian that was spoken before the 1930s, and the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish spoken by most residents today, Hertevin was known for its Soureth dialect that was different from other dialects in the region.[27][28] which was also spoken until the departure of the Chaldeans in nearby villages, known in Turkish as Hertevince (ISO 639-3 : hrt).

This dialect was the main languages of the village until the 1960s.[29]

In the west, it was first discovered by German linguist Otto Jastrow in 1970, who studied it and described it in detail in 1972.[30]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Hertevîn çîroka zimanekî ye". Özgür Politika. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. ^ Comment la Turquie a éradiqué ses minorités chrétiennes
  5. ^ Hütteroth, WD (1961). "Beobachtungen zur Sozialstruktur kurdischer Stämme im östlichen Taurus". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (in German). 86 (1): 31. JSTOR 25840729.
  6. ^ a b c (in Turkish) Ekinduzu, Turkey Page — www.fallingrain.com
  7. ^ Risko Kas. "L'histoire des autres villages Assyro-Chaldéen du Sud Est de la Turquie". meer.fr (in French). Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  8. ^ a b c Some Remarks on Modern Aramaic of Hertevin Archived 2023-04-19 at the Wayback Machine, Yoshiyuki Takashina, Journal of Asian and African Studies n°40, 1990 — repository.tufs.ac.jp
  9. ^ (in Turkish) EKİNDÜZÜ KÖYÜ (ERTEVIN) Archived 2019-01-23 at the Wayback Machine — guleclerkoyu.com
  10. ^ a b c (in Turkish) Keldanice: Yok olmaya yüz tutmuş bir dilin hikayesi — bbc.com
  11. ^ a b c d (in German) Eine untergegangene Welt: Chaldäerdörfer in der Türkei — www.rbenninghaus.de
  12. ^ (in Turkish) Bati Ermenistan Ve Bati Ermenileri Sorunlari Asraştilmalar Merkezi: Bitlis Vilayeti — www.akunq.net
  13. ^ (in Dutch) Macht op de kale berg — shlama.be
  14. ^ a b [1] — team-aow.discuforum.info
  15. ^ Un village chaldéen: Ischy — ischy.fr
  16. ^ Joseph Alichoran, Les Assyro-Chaldéens d'Ile-de-France, une intégration réussie, Bulletin de l'Œuvre d'Orient n° 782, 2016
  17. ^ Raymond Kévorkian (2006). Éditions Odile Jacob (ed.). Le Génocide des Arméniens. Paris. p. 1007. ISBN 978-2738118301.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  18. ^ Jacques Rhétoré, Les chrétiens aux bêtes : Souvenirs de la guerre sainte proclamée par les Turcs contre les chrétiens en 1915, Éditions du Cerf, 2005, 397 p. ISBN 2-204-07243-5
  19. ^ Dossier de Presse: Arménie 1915 - Centenaire du Génocide— Exposition Hôtel de Ville, cdn.paris.fr
  20. ^ Vincent Duclert (April 2015). Éduscol (ed.). LE GÉNOCIDE DES ARMÉNIENS OTTOMANS – Mise au point scientifique et pédagogique pour les enseignants (PDF). Paris. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2021-07-18.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ^ Chahine, Marwan (2010-11-25). "Sarcelles en Chaldée". Libération.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  22. ^ Alaux, Robert (2009). "Assyro-Chaldéens, la fuite". Les Cahiers de l'Orient (in French). 93 (1): 23. doi:10.3917/lcdlo.093.0023. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  23. ^ 1-08-1999 - Kurdistan Lib. - Mazlum: BURNED VILLAGES [LIST : 1995 — www.mesopotamia-ita.com
  24. ^ Bulletin de liaison et d'information N° 111-1121, Juin-Juillet 1994 — institutkurde.org
  25. ^ (in Turkish) Siirt'te yeni bir tekstil fabrikası açılıyor Kaynak: Siirt'te yeni bir tekstil fabrikası açılıyor Archived 2022-01-16 at the Wayback Machine — siirtliler.net
  26. ^ Gabriele Yonan (1996). Assyrian International News Agency (ed.). LEST WE PERISH - A FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST – The Extermination of the Christian Assyrians in Turkey and Persia (PDF). Chicago. p. 139. OCLC 889626846. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-25. Retrieved 2021-07-18.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  27. ^ Ariel Gutman (2018). Language Science Press (ed.). Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (pdf). Berlin. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1182527. ISBN 978-3-96110-081-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  28. ^ Ethnologue (16th)
  29. ^ (in Turkish) MEMLEKET BAĞRINDA YARA İZLERİ — suryaniler.com
  30. ^ Otto Jastrow (1990). Brill - First Edition (ed.). Studies in Neo-Aramaic – Harvard Semitic Studies. p. 210. ISBN 978-1555404307.
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