Günyurdu, Nusaybin

Village in Mardin Province, Turkey

Neighbourhood in Nusaybin, Mardin, Turkey
37°08′20″N 41°27′14″E / 37.139°N 41.454°E / 37.139; 41.454CountryTurkeyProvinceMardinDistrictNusaybinPopulation
 (2021)[1]
102Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Günyurdu (Kurdish: Merbabê, Syriac: Mar Bobo)[nb 1] is a village in the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province in Turkey.[3] The village is populated by Assyrians and by Kurds of the Mizizex tribe. It had a population of 102 in 2021.[1][4][5] It is located in the Raite Forest on the slopes of Mount Izla.[6]

History

Mar Bobo (today called Günyurdu) was historically exclusively inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Assyrians who spoke Turoyo, a dialect of Neo-Aramaic.[7]

At the time of the Sayfo amidst the First World War, Mar Bobo was owned by Sarohan, chief of a subsection of the Haverkan tribe.[8] Assyrian refugees from the village of Tel-Aryawon were granted refuge at Mar Bobo by Sarohan, who subsequently escorted the Assyrians from both villages to Beth-Debe, where they survived the genocide.[9]

In 1995, the village's population of 150 families was forcibly evicted by the Turkish army as part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict and many emigrated abroad to Germany or Switzerland.[10] Mar Bobo lay abandoned until it was resettled and rebuilt by eight Assyrian families in 2003.[4][10]

Demography

The following is a list of the number of Assyrian families that have inhabited Mar Bobo per year stated. Unless otherwise stated, all figures are from the list provided in Eastern Christianity, Theological Reflection on Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Holy Land and Christian Encounter with Islam and the Muslim World, as noted in the bibliography below.[11][nb 2]

  • 1966: 57
  • 1979: 67
  • 1981: 38
  • 1987: 28
  • 1995: 0
  • 2013: 12–13[12]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Marbobo, Merbab, Merbap, Mirbab, or Mor Bobo.[2]
  2. ^ The size of a single family varies between five and ten persons.[11]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), pp. 249, 325.
  3. ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Turkey´s ancient Christians seek to resettle villages". Hyetert. 3 June 2004. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  5. ^ Tan, Altan (2018). "Harita 2: Turabidin ve Berriyê mıntıkalarında yer alan aşiretlerin sınırları ile il, ilçe, köy ve mezralar" [Map 2: The borders of the tribes and provinces, districts, villages and hamlets in the Turabidin and Berriyê regions] (Map). Turabidin'den Berriyê'ye : Aşiretler Dinler Diller Kültürler (in Turkish). Istanbul: Nûbihar.
  6. ^ Bcheiry (2010), p. 77; Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 249.
  7. ^ Ritter (1967), p. 14; Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 249.
  8. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 238.
  9. ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 238, 263.
  10. ^ a b "The road home". Al Jazeera. 19 April 2003. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  11. ^ a b Brock (2021), p. 167.
  12. ^ Courtois (2013), p. 148.

Bibliography

  • Bcheiry, Iskandar (2010). Collection of Historical Documents in Relation with the Syriac Orthodox Community in the Late Period of the Ottoman Empire. Gorgias Press.
  • Brock, Sebastian (2021). "The Syrian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century". Eastern Christianity, Theological Reflection on Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Holy Land and Christian Encounter with Islam and the Muslim World (PDF). Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust. pp. 155–181. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  • Courtois, Sébastien de (2013). "Tur Abdin : Réflexions sur l'état présent descommunautés syriaques du Sud-Est de la Turquie,mémoire, exils, retours". Cahier du Gremmamo (in French). 21: 113–150.
  • Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  • Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle (2012). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915. Brill.
  • Ritter, Hellmut (1967). Turoyo: Die Volkssprache der Syrischen Christen des Tur 'Abdin (in German). Vol. 1. Franz Steiner Verlag.
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