Population The kaza of Derik had in 1914 an Armenian population of 1,782. Of these, 1,250 lived in the administrative seat of the kaza, the others in the town of Bayraklı (Arm.: Bairuk) in half an hour distance from the town of Derik. They maintained two churches, one monastery and one school for 50 children.(1) Derik Town Derik was founded between 1390 and 1400 and lies 780 m above sea level. There are many Christian churches in the district. Agha Petros listed 500 Syriac or Chaldean inhabitants; Father Joseph Tfinkdji stated that the Chaldean congregation numbered 40.[2] “(…) on August 11, 1915, the entire [...]
Archives: Regions
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Kaza Mardin / Marde / Merdo – ܡܪܕܝܢ
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Mardin Toponym In Aramaic, the town or the Ottoman and Turkish administrative unit of the same name is called Marde or Merdo; in the Eastern Roman Empire, it was called Mardia or Margdis in Greek, then Mardin under the Arabs. Population ‘Mardin types’ (Photograph Sarrafian Bros., Beirut) Lying in the heart of Syriac territory, the town of Mardin had a population of 12,609 Orthodox Syriacs and 7,692 Armenians, the vast majority of them Catholic. All were Arabic-speaking.[1] According to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, Armenians lived in two localities, where Armenian communities of the kaza Mardin maintained three [...]
Kaza Diyarbekir / Diyarbakır / Āmīd / Omīd ܐܡܝܕ
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Diyarbekir (Source: Center for Information and Documentation on Armenia) Diyarbekir, the Black City “Diyarbakir was for a long time the Ottomans’ key city along the Asian border. Situated on the caravan routes tying Asia Minor to Mesopotamia, its position was strategically an important springboard for conquest. For this reason, throughout its history, it was the subject of bitter disputes between Persians, Byzantines, Armenians, Arabs and Ottomans. Diyarbakir has always been a cosmopolitan city, where all peoples of the region are represented, and early on, it developed the conditions that would allow the rise of a sedentary, [...]
Sancak Diyarbekir / Diyarbakır / Āmīd / Omīd ܐܡܝܕ
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Diyarbekir Comprising the six kazas Diyarbekir, Siverek, Derik (Aramean: Dêrike ܖܪܝܟܐ), Silvan (Aramean: ܡܝܦܪܩܝܛ Mîyafariqîn), Beşiri (Arm.: Chernik – Չերնիկ) and Lice, the sancak Diyarbekir was the central administrative unit of the province of same name. Massacres and Deportations – ‘much more efficient and sophisticated’ than in other provinces “In the first two weeks of June, Armenian men in the sancakof Diyarbekir were systematically rounded up and taken daily in groups of 100 and 150 to the Mardin gate or the road to Gözle (today’s Gözalan), where their throats were slit. A group of 1,000 men [...]
Kaza Midyat / Mëḏyaḏ – ܡܕܝܕ
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Midyat Midyat Town Located in the center of the sancak Mardin, Midyat (Aramaic ܡܕܝܕ Mëḏyaḏ; Kurdish Midyad or Midyade) forms the urban and administrative center of the Tur Abdin landscape. The city was the seat of the Syriac Orthodox Bishop from 1478 to 2009, who has since resided at the Mor Gabriel Monastery. Midyat „is situated in the middle of a beautiful plain, surrounded by mountain slopes and hills”, wrote the French geographer Vital Cuinet in the late 19th century.[1] “There were at least six churches and two important monasteries in the vicinity, Mar Abraham [Mor [...]