View on Savur (2008: source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Savur3-pano_cr.jpg) Population In the kaza Savur, Armenians lived only in the administrative seat; according to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, their number there was 1,032 before World War I. They maintained one church and two schools with 195 students.[1] Savur Town “The town of Sawro is (…) on the ridge of a hill. A river runs in the valley and makes for good crops of fruits and vegetables. It is built on the site of an ancient fortress. For a period it was the seat of a bishopric. Many of the Christians converted to Islam together with the Muhallemi [...]
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Kaza Nusaybin / Nisibin / ܢܨܝܒܝܢ NṢĪwĪN / Nisibis
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative plate for Nusaybin (Nisibin) Toponym Nusaybin (Akkadian: Naṣibina; Classical Greek: Νίσιβις – Nisibis; Arabic: نصيبين, Kurdish: Nisêbîn; Syriac: ܢܨܝܒܝܢ – Nṣībīn, Armenian: Մծբին – Mtsbin. The name of the city was Nisibis in ancient times. History The city of Nisibis (the later Nisibin) is documented since the 10th century B.C. In 901 B.C. the Assyrian king Adad-nirari II went to war against the Temanite Nūr-Adad of Nisibis. From the middle of the 9th century B.C. to 612 B.C. it is documented as an Assyrian provincial capital. Under the Seleucids, Nisibis bore the name Antioch in Mygdonia, but this name [...]
Kaza Cizre / Cezire / Jezire(h) / Gāzartā d’Beṯ Zabdaï / ܓܙܝܼܪܵܐ Gziro
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Cizre In 1867, the Eyalet Kurdi (Kurdistan) was dissolved and replaced by the Diyarbekir Vilayet. Cezire (Jezire) became the seat of a kaza in the sancak of Mardin. The kaza was subdivided into nine nahiyes, and possessed 210 villages. Toponym Cizre is derived from the Arabic word Jazira (Arabic جزيرة ‘island’), because here the Tigris river washes around the city like an island during high water. The various names for the city of Cizre descend from the original Arabic name Jazirat Ibn ʿUmar (‘island of the son of Umar’). The alternative Arabic toponym Madinat al-Jazira translates [...]
Kaza Lice / ܠܓܗ – Leggeh (mlaḥso: lago) / lige
“View into the Valley (of Tigris) from Lice” (Lehmann-Haupt, Carl Friedrich: Armenien einst und jetzt, Vol. 1: Vom Kaukasus zum Tigris und nach Tigranokert (1910), p. 431 (source: Center for Information and Documentation on Armenia, Berlin) Population In 1914, there lived 5,980 Armenians in 33 localities of the kaza, half of them in the administrative center. They maintained 24 churches, one monastery and five schools with 305 students.[1] The number of Orthodox Syriacs in the kaza was 1,980.[2] The total Assyro-Chaldean population of the kaza was given as 4,100 persons.[3] According to David Gaunt, the inhabitants of the administrative seat of Lice numbered 12,000, [...]
Village Havav / Habab
Fethiye Çetin and her grandmother Hranush (Seher) Gadaryan (Katarian; 1905-2000) “At the time of Heranuş’s [Hranush] childhood, Habab [Arm.: Havav; today Ekinozu] was a large village of 204 dwellings, situated within the boundaries of Palu and the district of Ergani-Maden. The village boasted two churches and one monastery. Heranuş was the second child to be born to Isguhi and Hovannes’ Gadaryan. (…) Heranuş’s father Hovannes was the third of seven children and one of six boys. (…) Heranuş’s grandfather, Hayrabed Efendi, was a highly respected teacher who was known and loved throughout Palu and its environs, as well as Ergani-Maden, and Kiğı. He [...]