Çayırlı (Midyat)
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| Province (il) : | Mardin | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | Midyat | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 20 ' N , 41 ° 27' E | |||
| Height : | 848 m | |||
| Residents : | 26 (2009) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 482 | |||
| Postal code : | 47500 | |||
| License plate : | 47 | |||
Çayırlı ( Kurmanji : Kefnas) is a jesidisches village in the southeast of Turkey . The village is located about 13 km southeast of Midyat in the Midyat district of the same name in the Mardin province . The place is located in the Tur Abdin mountain range in south-eastern Anatolia .
location
Çayırlı (Kefnas) is located approx . 2 km east of the Yazidi village Koçan and approx. 2 km northeast of Çörekli .
History and population
The original name of the village is Kefnas (or Kevnas). The villages were renamed as a result of the Turkishization of geographical names in Turkey . Çayırlı is mostly an abandoned village today. The village had an exclusively Yazidi population. Most of the Yazidis from the town fled to Germany.
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento of September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed December 30, 2018
- ↑ TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Diyarbakır Şubesi. (PDF) Retrieved December 30, 2018 (Turkish).
- ^ Anatolic index. Accessed December 30, 2018 .