Gelinkaya, Midyat
Gelinkaya | |
|---|---|
  Gelinkaya Location within Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 37°25′05″N 41°16′08″E / 37.418°N 41.269°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Mardin |
| District | Midyat |
| Population (2022) | 1,542 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Gelinkaya (Arabic: کفر خۆار, romanized: Kafarḥuvar;[1] Syriac: Keferhavro, lit. 'white stone village')[2][a] is a village in the municipality and district of Midyat, Mardin Province, Turkey.[5] Its population is 1,542 (2022).[6] Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).[7][8] The village is populated by Kurds and Mhallami.[2] It is located in the historic region of Bēth Muḥallam in Tur Abdin.[9]
History
[edit]Keferhavro (today called Gelinkaya) was historically inhabited by Syriacs.[2] The Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I Dicorus (r. 491–518) is said to have donated the village to the Mor Gabriel Monastery.[10] The village's population converted to Islam to escape persecution in 1583.[11] It became the administrative centre for the Mhallami in the 1850s when a beg from nearby Dêrizbin settled at Keferhavro after a conflict with his relatives and seized the village's church to use as his residence.[12] Kurds from the nearby villages of Deywan and Helex and the Sinjar region later also settled at the village.[2]
Notable people
[edit]- Orhan Miroğlu (b. 1953), Turkish politician
References
[edit]Notes
Citations
- ↑ İşler (2018), p. 137.
- 1 2 3 4 Tan (2018), p. 257.
- ↑ Abed Mshiho Neman of Qarabash (2021), p. xxxviii.
- ↑ Abed Mshiho Neman of Qarabash (2021), p. xxxviii; Bilge (2012), p. 209; Barsoum (2008), p. 15; Palmer (1990), p. xx.
- ↑ Mahalle Archived 1 February 2025 at the Wayback Machine, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ↑ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ↑ "Law No. 6360". Official Gazette (in Turkish). 6 December 2012.
- ↑ "Classification tables of municipalities and their affiliates and local administrative units" (DOC). Official Gazette (in Turkish). 12 September 2010.
- ↑ Palmer (1990), p. xx; Barsoum (2008), pp. 15, 119.
- ↑ Bilge (2012), p. 209.
- ↑ Barsoum (2008), p. 119.
- ↑ Tan (2018), p. 256.
Bibliography
[edit]- Abed Mshiho Neman of Qarabash (2021) [1918]. Sayfo – An Account of the Assyrian Genocide. Translated by Michael Abdalla; Łukasz Kiczko. Edinburgh University Press.
- Barsoum, Aphrem (2008). The History of Tur Abdin. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- Bilge, Yakup (2012). "The Saint Gabriel Monastery Trust". In Pieter Omtzigt; Markus K. Tozman; Andrea Tyndall (eds.). The Slow Disappearance of the Syriacs from Turkey and of the Grounds of the Mor Gabriel Monastery (PDF). LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 209–218. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- İşler, İbrahim, ed. (2018). Midyat'ta Konuşulan Muhallemi Lehçesi: Arapça-Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish). Mevsimler.
- Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur Abdin. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- Tan, Altan (2018). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). Pak Ajans Yayincilik Turizm Ve Diş Ticaret Limited şirketi. ISBN 9789944360944.