Kavallı, Silopi

Kavallı
Village
Kavallı Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.210°N 42.419°E / 37.210; 42.419
Country	Turkey
Province	Şırnak
District	Silopi
Population  (2023)[1]	1,670
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)

Kavallı (Kurdish: Nêrwan,[2] Syriac: Nahrawān)[3][nb 1] is a village in the Silopi District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Tayan tribe and had a population of 1,670 in 2023.[1][2]

History

Nahrawān (today called Kavallı) was historically inhabited by Chaldean Catholic Assyrians.[6] In 1567, a manuscript was copied at the village by the scribe Hormizd, son of 'Abd Allah, of Karamlesh.[7] Nahrawān is identified with Narman, of which a bishop belonging to the Church of the East named Joseph is attested in 1607.[8] The village's population adhered to the Church of the East until they converted to the Chaldean Catholic Church in the second half of the 19th century.[9]

The Chaldean Catholic priest Joseph Tfinkdji noted Nahrawān was populated by 120 Chaldean Catholics in 1913 as part of the Chaldean Catholic diocese of Gazarta whilst the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation gave the village's population as 200 in 1914.[10] Amidst the Sayfo, the village was attacked by the Bohtan Kurds.[11]

Population

Population history from 2007 to 2023:[1]

Population

Year	Pop.	±%
2007	985	—
2010	1,115	+13.2%
2015	1,435	+28.7%
2020	1,661	+15.7%
2023	1,670	+0.5%

References

Notes

1. Alternatively transliterated as Nehrivan, Nuhervan, Nahravan, or Nahrwan.[4]

Citations

1. "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
2. Baz (2016), p. 81.
3. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 100.
4. Gaunt (2006), p. 241; Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 328.
5. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
6. Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 328.
7. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 120.
8. Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 100, 111.
9. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 112.
10. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 107; Gaunt (2006), p. 426.
11. Gaunt (2006), p. 241.

Bibliography

• Baz, Ibrahim (2016). Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü (in Turkish). ISBN 9786058849631.
• Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
• Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle (2012). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915. Brill.
• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.