Üçyol, Hasankeyf

Üçyol
Village
Vicinity of village
Vicinity of village
Üçyol is located in Turkey
Üçyol
Üçyol
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°42′18″N 41°27′54″E / 37.705°N 41.465°E / 37.705; 41.465
CountryTurkey
ProvinceBatman
DistrictHasankeyf
Population
 (2021)[1]
415
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Üçyol[a] (Kurdish: Difnê; Syriac: Dufne)[3][b] is a village in the Hasankeyf District of Batman Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of both non-tribal affiliation and the Erebiyan tribe. It had a population of 415 in 2021.[1][6] It is located on the south bank of the Tigris in the historic region of Tur Abdin.[7]

The hamlet of Kavak is attached to the village.[5]

History

Dufne (today called Üçyol) has been identified as the site of the Roman castrum Daphnoudis (Greek: Δαφνοῦδιν, romanized: Daphnoudin) in the province of Mesopotamia, mentioned by George of Cyprus in Descriptio Orbis Romani.[8] Mar Aho the Anchorite founded a small monastery at the village in the sixth century AD called the Monastery of Dafneth, also known as the Monastery of Mar Aho.[9] The Monastery of the Cross at Atafiya, also known as the Monastery of Makhar, was located near Dufne; it was believed to have been constructed by Emperor Anastasius I Dicorus (r. 591–518) and designed by the architects Theodosius and Theodorus.[10]

Cyril Yuhanna, son of the priest Simon of Bati, who had been ordained as metropolitan bishop of Midyat and the Monastery of the Cross at Atafiya (fl. 1468–1519) by Ignatius 'Aziz, Patriarch of Tur Abdin, was from Dufne.[11] Basilius Denha, maphrian of Tur Abdin, resided at the cloister of Mar Barsoum near Dufne in 1749, where he transcribed a book of husoyos (supplicatory prayers) for the Resurrection.[12] Dionysius Israel Sha’o of Basibrina, who had been metropolitan bishop of the Monastery of the Cross at Bethel in 1779, was transferred to the metropolitan see of Makhar and the Monastery of Dafneth (1792–1798).[13]

Cotton was cultivated at Dufne using irrigation from the Tigris.[3] In 1914, it was populated by 200 Assyrians, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[14] It was located in the kaza of Midyat.[14] There were 40 Assyrian families in 1915.[15] The Assyrians adhered to the Syriac Orthodox Church.[16] Amidst the Sayfo, the village was attacked by Kurds of the Rama tribe led by Amin Ahmad and the Assyrians were captured and taken to the Tigris, where they were killed and their bodies were thrown into the river, leaving only six survivors.[3] The priest Shi'mun (Simon) was skinned alive.[17] There were no remaining Assyrians at Dufne by 1987.[15]

References

Notes

  1. ^ "Three-ways" in Turkish.[2]
  2. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Dafneth, Dafeneth, Dafna, Dafne, Defna, Defnē, Défné, Difne, Difni, or Dufnê.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ Sinclair (1989), p. 314.
  3. ^ a b c Gaunt (2006), p. 219.
  4. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 320; Barsoum (2008), pp. 7, 15; Courtois (2004), p. 227; Palmer (1990), p. 261; Barsoum (2003), pp. 83, 562; Sinclair (1989), p. 314.
  5. ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ Tan (2018), pp. 110, 159.
  7. ^ Barsoum (2008), p. 15; Gaunt (2006), p. 219.
  8. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 219; Marciak (2017), pp. 46, 195.
  9. ^ Barsoum (2008), pp. 7, 19.
  10. ^ Barsoum (2008), p. 19, 83; Barsoum (2009), p. 55; Palmer (1990), p. 52.
  11. ^ Barsoum (2008), pp. 37, 48.
  12. ^ Barsoum (2009), p. 54.
  13. ^ Barsoum (2008), pp. 44, 51.
  14. ^ a b Gaunt (2006), p. 427.
  15. ^ a b Courtois (2004), p. 227.
  16. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 320.
  17. ^ Barsoum (2008), p. 137.

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