Kösreli, Silopi

Kösreli
Village
Kösreli is located in Turkey
Kösreli
Kösreli
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°20′31″N 42°25′26″E / 37.342°N 42.424°E / 37.342; 42.424
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
DistrictSilopi
Population
 (2023)[1]
43
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Kösreli (Syriac: Ḥaṣṣen)[2][nb 1] is a village in the Silopi District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Assyrians and had a population of 43 in 2023.[1][5] It is located on Mount Judi.[6]

History

The Church of the East metropolitan bishop Joseph of Gazarta is attested to have resided at Ḥaṣṣen (today called Kösreli) in 1808 after he had been forced to abandon his normal residence at the Monastery of Mar Isaac of Nineveh due to war.[7] In this year, he copied a manuscript at the Church of Mar Mūshe at Ḥaṣṣen for a Christian woman called Alpō.[8] In a letter from the American mission at Urmia in 1877, they claimed to have converted the village's priest and it is mentioned in 1881 that it was inhabited by 25 Protestant families who had converted along with their bishop, as well as four or five families who adhered to the Church of the East.[9]

According to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation, Ḥaṣṣen was inhabited by 300 Assyrians in 1914, at which time they were tenants of the Aghas of Şırnak and Silopi.[10] Amidst the Sayfo, most of the villagers were massacred, including the Presbyterian pastor and the Church of the East priest, whilst some survivors found refuge at the nearby Kurdish village of Gerçulaye.[11] In 1918, the village was inhabited by 420 Assyrians.[12]

Ḥaṣṣen had two churches dedicated to Mart Shmuni and Mar Mikhaʾil respectively in the 1950s that may have been built prior to the First World War.[13] By 1980, it was inhabited by 200 Assyrian families, including adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Catholic Church, and the Syriac Orthodox Church.[14] Ḥaṣṣen was forcibly evacuated by the Turkish army on 20 November 1993, but 40 families remained, and some families temporarily moved to Midun, Azakh, Bnebil, and the Mor Hananyo Monastery.[15] Many villagers emigrated to Germany and Belgium, particularly the city of Mechelen.[16] The Turkish Ministry of National Defence authorised families to return to Ḥaṣṣen in 2010.[17]

Population

Population history from 2015 to 2023:[1]

Population
YearPop.±%
201526—    
202048+84.6%
202343−10.4%

Notable people

References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Hassan, Hassana, Hassane, Hessana, Hessanna, or Hossana.[3]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  2. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 105.
  3. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 224; Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 328.
  4. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  5. ^ Andrews & Benninghaus (1989), p. 384.
  6. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 107.
  7. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 117, 119.
  8. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 119.
  9. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 105, 119.
  10. ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 224, 426.
  11. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 224.
  12. ^ Yacoub (2016), p. 197.
  13. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 120.
  14. ^ Atto (2011), p. 139; Courtois (2013), p. 150.
  15. ^ Atto (2011), p. 139.
  16. ^ Atto (2011), p. 140; Courtois (2013), p. 150.
  17. ^ Courtois (2013), p. 150.

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