Çilesiz

Çilesiz
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Mardin
District ( ilçe ) :	Nusaybin
Coordinates :	37 ° 8 '  N , 41 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 8 '0 "  N , 41 ° 32' 34"  E
Height :	518  m
Residents :	41 (2009)
Telephone code :	(+90) 482
Postal code :	47300
License plate :	47

Çilesiz ( Kurmanji : Mezre) is a jesidisches village in the southeast of Turkey . The village is located about 30 km northeast of Nusaybin in the Nusaybin district of the same name in the Mardin province . The place is located at the foot of the Tur Abdin mountain range in southeastern Anatolia .

The entrance to the Yezidi cemetery Goristana Hesen Begê near the village (about 1.5 km north)

Yazidi graves in the Goristana Hesen Begê cemetery near the village

location

Çilesiz (Mezrê) is located about 4 km southeast of Güneli (Geliyê Sora) and about 2 km southwest of Mağaracık (Xanik). The Yezidi cemetery Goristana Hesen Begê is located north of the village in about 1.5 km away.

History and population

The original name of the village is Mezremhoki or Mezramihokê ("The hamlet of Miho", short: Mezrê). The villages were renamed as a result of the Turkishization of geographical names in Turkey . The village had an exclusively Yazidi population. In 1955 240 people lived there. In 2017 the population was 43 people.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento of September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed December 30, 2018
2. ↑ TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Diyarbakır Şubesi (PDF)
3. ↑ Philip G. Kreyenbroek: Yezidism in Europe: Different Generations Speak about Their religion . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06060-8 ( google.de [accessed December 30, 2018]).
4. ↑ Sevan Nişanyan: Adini unutan Ülke. Türkiye'de Adı Değiştirilen Yerler Sözlüğü. Istanbul 2010, p. 233
5. ↑ census data
6. ↑ www.nufusune.com