Üçkuyular

	Üçkuyular
Basic data
Province (il) :	Batman
District ( ilçe ) :	Beşiri
Coordinates :	37 ° 49 ′ N , 41 ° 19 ′ E Coordinates: 37 ° 49 ′ 17 ″ N , 41 ° 19 ′ 15 ″ E
Height :	784 m
Residents :	22 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+90) 488
Postal code :	72200
License plate :	72

Üçkuyular ( Kurmanji : Feqîra) is a jesidisches village in the southeast of Turkey . The village is located about 12 km south of Beşiri in the Beşiri district of the same name in the Batman province . The place is located in Southeast Anatolia .

History and population

The original name of the village is Feqîra (also Feqiran or Fakiran). The villages were renamed as a result of the Turkishization of geographical names in Turkey . Today Üçkuyular is mostly an abandoned village. The village had an exclusively Yazidi population.

According to the Siirt Province Yearbook of 1973, 236 people lived in the village. In 2000 there were 6 families in the village. In 2009 there were 4 families living there. In 2012 5 families lived there.

Individual evidence

↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
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↑ Ersoy Soydan: BATMAN YEZIDIS AND YEZIDIS ORAL TRADITION (BATMAN YEZİDİLERİ VE YEZİDİ SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜ) . ( academia.edu [accessed December 31, 2018]).
^ Anatolic index. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
↑ ON FINAL SETTLEMENT PLACES AND POPULATION OF EZIDIS, AN ETHNO-RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, IN BATMAN AND NEARBY VICINITY. (PDF) In: Turkish Studies. Accessed December 31, 2018 .

[1] Turkish Institute for Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2018 .

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[3] Ersoy Soydan: BATMAN YEZIDIS AND YEZIDIS ORAL TRADITION (BATMAN YEZİDİLERİ VE YEZİDİ SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜ) . ( academia.edu [accessed December 31, 2018]).

[4] Anatolic index. Accessed December 31, 2018 .

[5] ON FINAL SETTLEMENT PLACES AND POPULATION OF EZIDIS, AN ETHNO-RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, IN BATMAN AND NEARBY VICINITY. (PDF) In: Turkish Studies. Accessed December 31, 2018 .