Beyyurdu, Şemdinli

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][a] is a village in the Şemdinli District in Hakkâri Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Herkî tribe and had a population of 365 in 2023.[1][6]

The hamlet of Kayacık is attached to the village.[5]

History

Beṯ Daiwe (today called Beyyurdu) was inhabited by 24 Church of the East Christian families in 1877 when visited by Edward Lewes Cutts and was served by one functioning church as part of the archdiocese of Shemsdin.[3] There was a church of Mar Cyriacus and John the Baptist.[7] 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

Notes

  1. ^ Formerly known as Bedevi.[4]

Citations

  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. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ Erdost (1993), p. 292.
  7. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 306.
  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.

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