Üçköy

Üçköy
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Mardin
District ( ilçe ) :	Nusaybin
Coordinates :	37 ° 15 '  N , 41 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 15 '29 "  N , 41 ° 26' 10"  E
Height :	920  m
Residents :	464 (2013)
Telephone code :	(+90) 482
Postal code :	47 xxx
License plate :	47

Arkah

Üçköy ( Aramaic ܐܪܟܚ, Arkah , also Harabale , Kurdish Xarabêalê, Xirbê Elî ) is a Christian-Aramaic village in the district of Nusaybin in the province of Mardin in southeastern Turkey in the Tur Abdin mountain range. There are only vague assumptions about the meaning of the name Arkah. The original name of the village is Harabele. The Turkish name Ücköy means three villages .

history

The village of Arkah is mentioned for the first time in the life story of St. Malke from the fourth century. There it is reported that the saint saved a resident of the place named Schlemun from a dragon, whereupon the residents converted to Christianity and built the monastery of the saint. Since then you have belonged to the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch . Today it is one of the few Aramaic villages that remain in Tur Abdin .

geography

location

Üçköy is located in the neighborhood of the Mor Malke Monastery of Kluzma, on the north side of the Izlo Mountains . Other neighboring villages are distributed as follows:

Yemişli 14 km	Midyat 25 km	Mor Gabriel Monastery 23 km
		Taşköy 7 km
Üçyol 13 km	Dibek 8 km

Landscape image

The vegetation is sparse. There are hardly any trees, a lot of sand and dry grass. In the war against Kurdish separatists, the Turkish army regularly burned the remaining forests to take cover from the fighters. The whole of Tur Abdin is dominated by Mediterranean hard foliage.

climate

The seasons are very distinctive with lots of rainfall in spring and autumn, a hot and dry summer and a cold and heavily snowed winter. Temperatures range from −10 ° C in winter to +52 ° C in summer.

economy

The village is known for its especially large grapes, known as drayso . They are fresh or dried as raisins sold. Along with cattle breeding, they are the most important source of income.

Infrastructure

The state school opened in 1961. The military station was moved from Hbob village to Arkah in 1975. In 1984 a deep well was drilled to supply the village and the military station with water. The village can be reached by different roads from Nusaybin and Midyat . Üçköy received a power line in 1986 and a telephone line in 1988 .

population

The Patriarch Abdallah of Sadad mentions in his book Statistics from 1870 the names of 41 families in the village of Arkah. According to oral tradition, the village was burned down three times during the political conflicts between 1900 and 1926 and was rebuilt by the residents each time. At the same time, many residents left the village and Tur Izlo and emigrated to Syria , Lebanon and Iraq . Today there are at least 70 families in Qamishli and Kabre Hewore in Syria. Around 70 Aramaic families lived here at the time of the 1914/1915 genocide . During the persecution, they sought refuge in Mor Malke monastery, from where some of them subsequently returned. In 1980 there were 80 families in the village, 35 of which have remained until today (2007). According to the last statistical survey by TÜIK from 2013, Ücköy has 464 inhabitants.

Churches

There are two village churches. Only ruins remain of the Mor Theodorus church. The other, Mor Afrem, has recently been renewed. In Mor Afrem there is an old manuscript in Estrangelo .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed November 27, 2014
2. ↑ Sevan Nişanyan: Adini unutan Ülke. Türkiye'de Adı Değiştirilen Yerler Sözlüğü. Istanbul 2010, p. 234
3. ↑ Mor Malke ( Memento from September 29, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ^ Website of the Arkah Support and Development Association

Web links

• Support and development association Arkah e. V. from 2003