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Baykan (Arabic: دير هابيل;[1] Kurdish: Hawêl;[2] Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܗܒܝܠ, romanized: Dayr Hābil)[1][3][a] is a municipality in the Baykan District of the Siirt Province in Turkey.[6] It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 5,544 in 2021.[7][8] Baykan is divided into the neighbourhoods of Cefan, Havel, İnönü, Karşıyaka and Yenidoğan.[6]
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History
[edit]Dayr Hābil (today called Baykan) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[9] It is alternatively named as an Armenian village.[10] A copy of the Gospel which contained the biography of Metropolitan Yuhanna of Mardin was sold to the church of the Monastery of Mar Abel in 1396.[11] The Maphrian Basil Barsawma (r. 1422–1455) was a monk at the Monastery of Mar Habel.[12] Ignatius Khalaf of Maʿdan, patriarch of Antioch (r. 1455–1483), was from the village of the Monastery of Hobīl.[13]
In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 11 households, who paid 62 dues, and it did not have a priest.[9] There was a church of Morī Ḥananyyā.[9] In a letter from Priest Ibrahim to Patriarch Ignatius Abdul Masih II, it is recorded that the village was attacked by about 100 men of the Danabkta kochers led by two sons of the chief of the tribe, Mijdad Agha, on 15 October 1895, amidst the Hamidian massacres.[5] The monastery and most of the houses were burned down and the villagers took refuge in friendly Muslim villages.[5]
In the local elections in March 2019, Ramazan Sarsılmaz from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was elected mayor.[14] Mehmet Tunç was appointed Kaymakam in September 2018.[15] On 15 May 2020, Sarsılmaz was dismissed from his post, and Mehmet Tunç was appointed as the trustee of the municipality.[16]
References
[edit]Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Carlson, Thomas A. (14 January 2014). "Dayr Hābīl - ܕܝܪܐ ܕܗܒܝܠ". The Syriac Gazetteer. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
- ^ Avcıkıran (2009), p. 57.
- ^ Barsoum (2003), p. 553.
- ^ Bcheiry (2009), p. 47; Bcheiry (2013), p. 32; Verheij (2017), p. 140.
- ^ a b c Dinno (2017), p. 177.
- ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ Aşiretler raporu (in Turkish) (3rd ed.). Kaynak Yayınları. 2014. p. 272.
- ^ a b c Bcheiry (2009), p. 47.
- ^ Verheij (2017), p. 140.
- ^ Barsoum (2008), p. 32.
- ^ Wilmshurst (2016), p. 496.
- ^ Bcheiry (2013), pp. 31–32.
- ^ "Siirt Baykan Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- ^ "Kaymakam Özgeçmişi". baykan.gov.tr. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- ^ "Six HDP co-mayors removed from duty in southeastern Turkey, eastern province mayor detained". www.duvarenglish.com. 15 May 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
Bibliography
[edit]- Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez, Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Kurdish and Turkish).
- Barsoum, Aphrem (2003). The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by Matti Moosa (2nd ed.). Gorgias Press. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- Barsoum, Aphrem (2008). History of the Za'faran Monastery. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- Bcheiry, Iskandar (2009). The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Register of Dues of 1870: An Unpublished Historical Document from the Late Ottoman Period. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- Bcheiry, Iskandar (2013). The Account of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Yūḥanun Bar Šay Allāh (1483–1492): The Syriac Manuscript of Cambridge: DD.3.8(1). Gorgias Press. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- Dinno, Khalid S. (2017). The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond: Crisis then Revival. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- Verheij, Jelle (2017). ""The year of the firman:" The 1895 massacres in Hizan and Şirvan (Bitlis vilayet)". Études arméniennes contemporaines. 10 (10): 125–159. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- Wilmshurst, David (2016). Bar Hebraeus The Ecclesiastical Chronicle: An English Translation. Gorgias Press.
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