Yemişli,_Uludere

Yemişli, Uludere

Yemişli, Uludere

Village in Şırnak Province, Turkey

Yemişli (Kurdish: Mergeh; Syriac: Margā) is a village in the Uludere District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Goyan tribe and had a population of 2,749 in 2023.[1][2]

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The hamlet of Yekmal is attached to Yemişli.[3]

History

Margā (today called Yemişli) was inhabited by 760 Chaldean Catholic Assyrians in 1913 and had one church and one priest as part of the diocese of Zakho.[4] The village was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in June 1915 amidst the Sayfo and its inhabitants were later resettled at Berseve near Zakho in Iraq.[5]

Population

Population history from 2007 to 2023:[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  2. [2]
    Baz (2016), p. 125.
  3. [3]
    Dersan, Nilüfer; Fazlıoğlu, Aygül (2002). "Şırnak ili Uludere ilçesi köyleri katılımcı kırsal kalkınma temelli alan araştırması" (PDF) (in Turkish). p. 7. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. [4]
    Wilmshurst (2000), p. 109.
  5. [5]
    Yacoub (2016), pp. 166, 189.

Bibliography

  • Baz, Ibrahim (2016). Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü (in Turkish). ISBN 9786058849631.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.
  • Yacoub, Joseph (2016). Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Translated by James Ferguson. Oxford University Press.
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