Arıca, Gercüş

Arıca (Classical Syriac: Kafro `Elayto ܟܦܪܐ ܥܠܝܬܐ‎,[2][nb 1] Kurdish: Kefri‎[5]) is a village in Batman Province in southeastern Turkey. It is located in the district of Gercüş and the historical region of Tur Abdin.

Arıca
Arıca
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.5097°N 41.4458°E / 37.5097; 41.4458
Country Turkey
ProvinceBatman Province
DistrictGercüş
Population
 (2011)
 • Total363[1]
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

In the village, there are churches of Mor Aho and Mor Dimet,[6] Mor Jacob,[7] and Mor Barsaumo.[4]The Monastery of Mor Barsaumo is also located north of the village.[4]

Etymology

The Syriac name of the village is derived from "kafro" ("village" in Syriac) and "elayto" ("upper" in Syriac), thus Kafro `Elayto translates to "upper village". This name serves to distinguish the village from Kafro Tahtayto ("lower village" in Syriac).

History

Amidst the Assyrian genocide, in 1915, Kafro Elayto was populated by 80 Assyrian families and 30 Kurdish families.[7] After a five-day siege by a Kurdish force led by Yusuf Agha, most of the village's Assyrian population were massacred and their houses destroyed, and a few survivors fled to Inwardo.[7] The Assyrians later returned, and roughly 60 Assyrian families are recorded in the 1980s,[7] however, they were forced to flee due to the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, and as of 2012 there are no remaining Assyrians.[3] The village's remaining inhabitants are members of the Dekşuri tribe.[8]

Notable people

References

Notes

  1. Alternatively transliterated as Kafro Helayto, Kafro Eleito,[3] or Kafro Eloyto.[4]

Citations

  1. "Population of city, towns and villages - 2011". Turkish Statistical Institute. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  2. "ܩܫܝܫܐ ܝܘܣܦ ܫܐܗܝܢ – القس يوسف شاهين". Syriac Electronic School (in Arabic). 28 March 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. Tamcke (2012), p. 18.
  4. Sinclair (1989), p. 319.
  5. Biner (2019), p. x.
  6. "Threatened or destroyed churches and monasteries in the Tur Abdin". Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch Archdiocese of the Western United States. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  7. "Kafro-Elayto". Foundation for Conservation and Promotion of the Aramaic Cultural Heritage (in German). Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  8. "Arica". Index Anatolicus (in Turkish). Retrieved 14 July 2020.

Bibliography
  • Biner, Zerrin Ozlem (2019). States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Sinclair, T.A. (1989). Eastern Turkey: An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume III. Pindar Press. ISBN 9780907132349.
  • Tamcke, Martin (2012). "The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the 'Seyfo' against the Syrians". The Slow Disappearance of the Syriacs from Turkey and of the Grounds of the Mor Gabriel Monastery, ed. Pieter Omtzigt, Markus K. Tozman, Andrea Tyndall. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 15–25.


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