Beyyurdu, Şemdinli

Beyyurdu
Village
Beyyurdu is located in Turkey
Beyyurdu
Beyyurdu
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°19′16″N 44°13′44″E / 37.321°N 44.229°E / 37.321; 44.229
CountryTurkey
ProvinceHakkâri
DistrictŞemdinli
Population
 (2023)[1]
365
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Beyyurdu (Kurdish: Bêdevê;[2] Syriac: Beṯ Daiwe)[3] is a village in the Şemdinli District in Hakkâri Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Herkî tribe and had a population of 365 in 2023.[1][5]

There was a church of Mar Cyriacus and John the Baptist.[6]

The hamlet of Kayacık is attached to the village.[4]

History

The former name of the village was Bedevi.[7] The village was inhabited by 24 Assyrian families in 1877 when visited by Edward Lewes Cutts, all of whom were adherents of the Church of the East and were served by one functioning church as part of the archdiocese of Shemsdin.[3] It was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in 1915 amidst the Sayfo.[8]

The village was evacuated in the 1990s during the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.[9]

Population

Population history from 1997 to 2023:[10][1]

Population
YearPop.±%
1997342—    
2007432+26.3%
2010450+4.2%
2015452+0.4%
2020407−10.0%
2023365−10.3%

References

  1. ^ a b c "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Şemdinli köylerinin Kürtçe, Türkçe ve Eski isimleri". Yüksekova Haber (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 12 April 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b Wilmshurst (2000), p. 305.
  4. ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  5. ^ Erdost (1993), p. 292.
  6. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 306.
  7. ^ Köylerimiz: 1 Mart 1968 gününe kadar (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye: İçişleri Bakanlığı İller İdaresi Genel Müdürlüğü. 1968. p. 94. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  8. ^ Yacoub (2016), p. 115.
  9. ^ "The situation in Turkish Kurdistan" (PDF). Kurdish Institute of Paris. November 1992. p. 26. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  10. ^ "1997 Population Count" (PDF) (in Turkish). Turkish Statistical Institute. 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 October 2022.

Bibliography

  • Erdost, Muzaffer İlhan (1993). Şemdinli röportajı (in Turkish). Onur Yayınları. p. 292.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.
  • Yacoub, Joseph (2016). Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Translated by James Ferguson. Oxford University Press.