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Kocapınar (Kurdish: Emerîn,[2] Syriac: ‘Amīrīn)[3][nb 1] is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[6] The village is populated by Kurds of the Amara and Meman tribes and had a population of 806 in 2021.[1][7]

History

‘Amīrīn (today called Kocapınar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic Assyrians,[4] of whom the latter had formerly adhered to the Church of the East.[5] The priest and monk Gīwārgīs of ‘Amīrīn is attested at the Church of the East Monastery of Mār Aḥḥā the Egyptian in 1540.[8]

By the time of the Sayfo, 300 people inhabited the village according to Agha Petros, including 250 Syriac Orthodox Christians and some Chaldean Catholic families.[9] On 1 June 1915, the village was seized and most of its inhabitants were captured by Kurds belonging to the Esene, Mammi, and ‘Alikan tribes; 15 families were able to escape under the protection of the Kurdish sheikh ‘Abde from Batelle, who escorted them to Azekh.[10]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Emerin, Amrine, Ömerin,[4] or ʿAmrīn.[5]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ Baz (2016), p. 26.
  3. ^ Bcheiry (2019), p. 57.
  4. ^ a b Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 328.
  5. ^ a b Wilmshurst (2000), p. 111.
  6. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  7. ^ Baz (2016), pp. 107, 110.
  8. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 115.
  9. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 220.
  10. ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 220, 392.

Bibliography

  • Baz, Ibrahim (2016). Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü (in Turkish). ISBN 9786058849631.
  • Bcheiry, Iskandar (2019). "Digitizing and Schematizing the Archival Material from the Late Ottoman Period Found in the Monastery of al-Zaʿfarān in Southeast Turkey". Atla Summary of Proceedings. 72 (January): 50–61.
  • 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.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.
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