Kocapınar, Cizre

Coordinates: 37°17′38″N 42°03′54″E / 37.294°N 42.065°E / 37.294; 42.065
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Kocapınar
Kocapınar is located in Turkey
Kocapınar
Kocapınar
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°17′38″N 42°03′54″E / 37.294°N 42.065°E / 37.294; 42.065
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
DistrictCizre
Population
 (2021)[1]
806
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Kocapınar (Kurdish: Emerîn, Syriac: ‘Amīrīn)[2][nb 1] is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Amara and Meman tribes and had a population of 806 in 2021.[1][6]

History

‘Amīrīn (today called Kocapınar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic Assyrians,[3] of whom the latter had formerly adhered to the Church of the East.[4] The priest and monk Gīwārgīs of ‘Amīrīn is attested at the Church of the East Monastery of Mār Aḥḥā the Egyptian in 1540.[7]

By the time of the Sayfo, 300 people inhabited the village according to Agha Petros, including 250 Syriac Orthodox Christians and some Chaldean Catholic families.[8] On 1 June 1915, the village was seized and most of its inhabitants were captured by Kurds belonging to the Esene, Mammi, and ‘Alikan tribes; 15 families were able to escape under the protection of the Kurdish sheikh ‘Abde from Batelle, who escorted them to Azekh.[9]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Emerin, Amrine, Ömerin,[3] or ʿAmrīn.[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. ^ Bcheiry (2019), p. 57.
  3. ^ a b Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 328.
  4. ^ a b Wilmshurst (2000), p. 111.
  5. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ Baz (2016), pp. 107, 110.
  7. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 115.
  8. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 220.
  9. ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 220, 392.

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