Toponym and administration The village and administrative center of the kaza of the same name was called Neri (Kurdish for ‘vineyards’, ‘gardens’) since 1877 and since 1928 in Turkish Bağlar, which also means ‘vineyards’. The Index Anatolicus assumes that Ne(h)ri may have been a city called Nairi in Assyrian sources. The tribal alliance of the eight (later up to 60) ‘lands’ or ‘kings of Nairi’, which had been mentioned by Assyrian rulers since about 1273 B.C., probably comprised ethnically different indigenous groups and was located on the territory of the subsequent state of Biainili (Urartu). It is regarded as an indirect [...]
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Kaza Gavar / Gever / Tergavar / Mergavar / Dize
THE MOUNTAINS OF TKHUMA AND JILU.From the top of the ‘staircase’ pass immediately above Amadia. TThe toponym Dize derives from Kurdish ‘diz’ (‘fortress’).he mountain in the center is Ghara Dagh [Karadağ] on the southern side of Tkhuma. To the left is Galiashin, the dominant peak of Jilu: and Sat Dagh further off upon the right. The crags in the middle distance rise up out of the Zab Gorge. – Source: Wigram, W[illiam] A[inger]; Wigram, Edgar T.A.: The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan. 2nd ed. London: Adam & Charles Black, (1922), http://www.aina.org/books/com/com.htm#c26 Toponym Gavar is a high-level plain, as also its [...]
Kaza Hakkari (Akkare)
The Assyrian village Qodshanis (Konak) “CHURCH OF MAR SHALITA, QUDSHANIS: The larger arch opens into the Sanctuary, the veil of which is never withdrawn except for the celebration of Qurbana.The smaller opens into the Sacristy, where is also the font. Ex voto offerings of aromatic herbs hang from the tie beams; and the Church is lit only by a tiny cruciform loophole at the west end, so that the interior is almost pitch dark.” -Source: Wigram, W[illiam] [...]
Kaza Başkale / Elbağ / Aghpag / Adamakert
Arshak Vramian, member of the Ottoman Parliament from Van province, in 1914 (murdered on April 4, 1915). Source: AMI collection; OVENK Together with the kaza Mahmudiye, the kaza Elbağ was one of the first Ottoman administrative units inhabited by Christians to host massacres in November and December 1914. The Dashnak representative and Armenian MP for the province of Van, Arshak Vramian (1871-1915), protested in vain in March 1915 in a memorandum to Ottoman Interior Minister Mehmet Talat: “In March [1915], Vramian sent a memorandum to the minister of the interior about the massacres that had occurred in the kazas of Başkale and [...]
Kaza Çatak / Shatakh – Շատախ
Located at the foothills of the Tauros, the territory of the kaza is mountainous, traversed by deep gorges, covered with pastures, meadows, and forest lakes. The East branch of the Tigris flows through the kaza with numerous tributaries. Population In the early 19th century, there were 95 villages in this kaza, of which 57[1] were Armenian-populated and the rest were Kurdish; the overall population was 8,433. Among the villages inhabited by Armenians were: Aregh (Առեղ), Arigum (Առիգոմ) Aroski (Առոսկի), Arevi (Արեհ), Armshat (Արմշատ), Ak’rus (Աքրուս), Bakhshkants Mazra (Բախչ կանց մազրա), Grmer (Գոմեր), Gotis (Գոտիս), Upper and Lower Darents (Verkin and Dayrents Nerk’in [...]