Çatalçam, Dargeçit
Çatalçam | |
|---|---|
  Çatalçam Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 37°33′40″N 41°36′32″E / 37.561°N 41.609°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Mardin |
| District | Dargeçit |
| Population (2021)[1] | 33 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Çatalçam (
In the village, there are churches of Mor Aho, the Cross,[7] Mor Heworo, and Mor Barsawmo.[8]
Etymology
The Syriac name of the village is derived from "dayro" ("monastery" in Syriac) and "Slibo" ("cross" in Syriac), thus Dayro da-Slibo translates to "Monastery of the Cross".[7] The village's alternative name, the Monastery of Beth El,[5] is composed of "beth" ("house" in Syriac) and "El" ("God" in Syriac), and therefore translates to "Monastery of the House of God".[9]
History
The foundation of the monastery, that would later become a village, is attributed to Saint Aho the Solitary in the 6th century, but it is suggested that it was founded earlier.[7] The monastery was named after a piece of the True Cross that Saint Aho brought back from Constantinople.[8] Saint Gabriel of Beth Qustan is alleged to have resurrected the abbot of the monastery in the 7th century.[10] Dayro da-Slibo is first mentioned in 774, in which year many monks there died from plague.[11] Bishop Sovo of Tur Abdin is attested at the monastery before 790.[11] In 1088, after the division of the diocese of Tur Abdin into the sees of Qartmin and Hah, Dayro da-Slibo became the seat of the bishops of Hah.[8] Masud of Zaz, who later became Patriarch of Tur Abdin, was abbot of the monastery from c. 1462/1463 until his ordination as bishop of Ḥesno d'Kifo in 1480/1481.[12]
In the mid-19th century,
On 2 August 1992, the cemetery and villagers' houses were destroyed, and its population forcibly evacuated by the Turkish army.[14][15] Villagers later returned and by 2000, the village was inhabited by 13 people.[2] On 17 July 2004, Gevriye Arslan, the village mukhtar, was murdered by Kurds after he refused to transfer to them the land of a Christian woman who had been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam.[16] Dayro da-Slibo was inhabited by 2 Assyrian families in 2013.[3] A land dispute over the seizure of villagers' land by a neighbouring Kurdish clan that began in 2008 was not resolved until 2015 due to the Kurds' threat of violence.[17] The Kurds were dislodged from the Assyrians' land by a large Turkish military force accompanied by military helicopters.[17]
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ a b "A Time of Change in Tur Abdin: A Report of a Visit to S.E. Turkey in May 2000". Syriac Orthodox Resources. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ a b Courtois (2013), p. 149.
- ^ Atto (2011), p. 182.
- ^ a b c Carlson, Thomas A. (6 February 2014). "Dayr al-Ṣalīb". The Syriac Gazetteer. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ Tan (2018), p. 128.
- ^ a b c Sinclair (1989), p. 320.
- ^ a b c d e f Takahashi (2011).
- ^ a b c d Beğtaş, Yusuf. "DERSALİP ZİYARETİ". Karyo Hliso (in Turkish). Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ^ Johnson (2008), p. 61.
- ^ a b Palmer (1990), p. 193.
- ^ Teule (2011).
- ^ "History". St. George Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Simhasana Church, Al-Ain. 1 October 2003. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ Atto (2011), p. 139.
- ^ "Assyria: Human Rights situation in Iraq, Turkey and Syria". Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation. 1 October 2003. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ Baumer (2016), p. 277.
- ^ a b Güsten (2016), pp. 22–23.
Bibliography
- Atto, Naures (2011). Hostages in the Homeland, Orphans in the Diaspora: Identity Discourses Among the Assyrian/Syriac Elites in the European Diaspora (PDF). Leiden University Press. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- Baumer, Christoph (2016). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Courtois, Sébastien de (2013). "Tur Abdin : Réflexions sur l'état présent descommunautés syriaques du Sud-Est de la Turquie,mémoire, exils, retours". Cahier du Gremmamo (in French). 21: 113–150.
- Güsten, Susanne (2016). A Farewell to Tur Abdin (PDF). Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- Johnson, Dale A. (2008). Tracts on the Mountain of the Servants. ISBN 9781435739918.
- Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur Abdin. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- Sinclair, T.A. (1989). Eastern Turkey: An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume III. Pindar Press. ISBN 9780907132349.
- Takahashi, Hidemi (2011). "al-Ṣalīb, Dayr". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Gorgias Press.
- Tan, Altan (2018). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). p. 132. ISBN 9789944360944.
- Teule, Herman G. B. (2011). "Masʿūd of Ṭur ʿAbdin". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Gorgias Press.