Altıntaş (Midyat)
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| Province (il) : | Mardin | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | Midyat | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 27 ' N , 41 ° 32' E | |||
| Height : | 950 m | |||
| Residents : | 275 (2013) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 482 | |||
| Postal code : | 47 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 47 | |||
Altıntaş ( Turkish for Goldstein ) ( Aramaic ܟܝܦܝܪܙܝ, Keferze , also Kefr Zek or Kfarze , Kurdish Kevirzê ) is a Christian-Aramaic village in the district of Midyat in the province of Mardin in southeastern Turkey .
location
Keferze is located 23 km northeast of Midyat in the Tur Abdin . Other localities in the area are distributed as follows:
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Narlı 5 km |
Dargeçit 29 km |
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Midyat 23 km |
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Anıtlı 11 km |
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Gülgöze 33 km ( linear distance : 5 km) |
Mor Gabriel Monastery 44 km (linear distance: 14 km) |
Haberli 28 km |
population
Before 1914/1915 there were around 160 Syrian Orthodox and 70 Muslim families in Keferze. During this time, three pastors simultaneously took care of the moral and spiritual blessing of the village. In raids and massacres in 1915, large parts of the Christian population were expelled or murdered. In 2005 there were 12 Syrian Orthodox living in the village with another 35-40 Kurdish families. Turoyo and Kurdish are spoken in the village .
Today Keferze, like the other villages of the once Christian Tur Abdin, is predominantly inhabited by Kurds.
History of Keferze
Keferze is first mentioned in 935. Yazidis and Kurds plundered the place around 1413 . There are also other mentions from the 15th and 19th centuries.
The British explorer Gertrude Bell , who toured the Tur Abdin around 1900, only found the remains of the Mor Izozoel church . A comparison of this magnificent church with the "wretched huts" gave it an "impressive picture of the splendor and decline of a culture".
Bishop Semun reported in a message from Keferze in 1855 that Prince Asdin Shin Buqtoyo attacked the Tur Abdin and destroyed the Christian churches. They killed four pastors, monks and many Christians.
Personalities
- Mor Dionysios David, Bishop of Beth Ruscho (Bagoke), born 1230.
- Mor Yuhannun Augin, bishop from 1778 to 1808.
- Mor Yulius Semun, bishop in the Dayro'Daslibo from 1854 to 1857.
- Mor Timetheos Barsaumo, bishop, bishopric in the monastery of Mor Gabriel , 1853 to 1897
- Bishop Mor Dionoyisus Isa Gürbuz , born in Keferze in 1964, today Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Switzerland and Austria
- Chorepiskopos Aziz Günel, copyist and calligrapher, born in Keferze in 1919, died in Belgium in 1997
Churches & monasteries in Keferze
- Mor Izozoel, also Mor Azazael , built around 750
- Mor Eliyo
- Mor Yuhannun
- Mor Gewargis
- Mor musche
- Dayro Daslibo
- Yoldath Aloho (Mother of God)
- Februnia Qadishto
- Mor Abrohom
literature
- Andrew Palmer. Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Ṭur ʻAbdin Cambridge University Press, 1990 ISBN 0521360269 at GoogleBooks
- David Gaunt, Jan Bet̲-Şawoce, Racho Donef. Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia During World War I Gorgias Press LLC, 2006 ISBN 1593333013 at GoogleBooks
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed January 2, 2015
- ↑ David Gaunt, Jan Bet̲-Şawoce, Racho Donef. Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia During World War I Gorgias Press LLC, 2006 ISBN 1593333013 , p. 234
- ↑ Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani. M1 Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Routledge, 2005 ISBN 0415308046 , p. 182
- ^ HE Mor Dionysius Isa Gürbüz
- ↑ Andrew Palmer. Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Ṭur ʻAbdin Cambridge University Press, 1990 ISBN 0521360269 , pp. 212f.