Balcılar, Bismil

Balcılar
Balcılar
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°43′52″N 40°51′43″E / 37.731°N 40.862°E / 37.731; 40.862
CountryTurkey
ProvinceDiyarbakır
DistrictBismil
Population
 (2022)[1]
254
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Balcılar (Kurdish: Seledun;[2] Syriac: Sīldūn)[3][a] is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bismil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.[5] It is populated by Kurds of the Barava tribe and had a population of 254 in 2022.[1][2]

History

Sīldūn (today called Balcılar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[4] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 4 households, who paid 15 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[3] It was located in the district of al-Bahramakiyyah in 1870.[3]

It was located in the kaza (district) of Silvan in the Diyarbekir sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in c. 1900.[4] There were 50 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[6] By 1914, it was situated in the Bafaya nahiyah (commune) of the kaza of Beşiri.[7] No survivors of the Sayfo are attested from this area.[8]

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References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Saladun, Salladon, or Sildoun.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "Address Based Population Registration System Results". Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b Tan (2018), p. 288.
  3. ^ a b c Bcheiry (2009), p. 41.
  4. ^ a b c Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 314.
  5. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 428.
  7. ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 226, 428.
  8. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 226.

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