Baz (tribe)

Coordinates: 38°01′N 44°06′E / 38.017°N 44.100°E / 38.017; 44.100
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Mata Khtata, a village in Baz, Hakkari, c. 1900
Assyrians under a tree in Baz, Hakkari, c. 1900

Baz (Syriac: ܒܙ) was one of the five independent Assyrian tribes of the Hakkari region.[1]

History

Maha Khtayya was the chief village of the region, followed by Shwawwa.[2]

The Assyrians of the Baz tribe were renowned carpenters and iron-workers who worked not only in their villages, but throughout Mosul and other large towns of Upper Mesopotamia.[3]

Assyrian Villages in Baz, Turkey

The Assyrian settlements that traditionally comprised the Baz region in Hakkari consist of the following villages.

Assyrian genocide.[2]

  • Arwantus (Artusnaye)
  • Shwawwa (Shawutnaye)
  • Maha Khtayya (Mahaye) (37°27 N, 43°53 E)
  • Be-Selim (Selimnaye)
  • Argab (Argabaye)
  • Kojij (Kojijnaye)

Current Baznaye settlements

These are the villages occupied after the Baznaye were resettled by the British in 1920s and the French in the 1930s.

Assyrian church of Mar Mattai in Sarsing.
Iraq
  • Babilo (Shawutnaye)
  • Bagereh (Selimnaye)
  • Chaqala (Kojijnaye)
  • Sardarawa (Artusnaye)
  • Sorka (Mahaye)
  • Simele (Mahaye)
  • Badarrash (Artusnaye)
  • Sarsing (Artusnaye)
  • Sikren (Selimnaye)
  • Sedar (Shawutnaye)
  • Pirozawa (Argabaye)
  • Ain Sifni (Mixed Baznaye)
  • Mawana (Mixed Baznaye)
Syria
  • Tell Baz (Shawutnaye, Mahaye and some Argabaye)[5][6]
  • Tell Ruman Foqani (Selimnaye and Mahaye)[5][7]

Famous people

  • Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac
    people during the 1920s.

References

  1. ISBN 9782877235037
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  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/jss/45.2.293
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  3. JSTOR 1775333
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  4. JSTOR 1797632
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  5. ^
    ISSN 0035-8789
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  6. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamir: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  7. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamir: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2020-04-25.

38°01′N 44°06′E / 38.017°N 44.100°E / 38.017; 44.100

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