Barıştepe
Barıştepe | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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Province (il) : | Mardin | |||
District ( ilçe ) : | Midyat | |||
Coordinates : | 37 ° 29 ′ N , 41 ° 24 ′ E | |||
Height : | 950 m | |||
Residents : | 1,129 (2013) | |||
Telephone code : | (+90) 482 | |||
Postal code : | 47500 | |||
License plate : | 47 | |||
Structure and administration | ||||
Muhtar : | Alaattin Bayar |
Barıştepe ( Turkish for Peace Hill , Aramaic Shiloh, Salih, also Shelah, Kurdish Selhe) is a village in the district of Midyat in Mardin province in the southeast of Turkey .
location
Barıştepe is located on a hill about 10 km north of the county seat, near the border with Batman . Other localities in the area are distributed as follows:
Hasankeyf 39 km |
Arıca 26 km ( linear distance : 5 km) |
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Mercimekli 6 km |
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Anıtlı 25 km |
Midyat 12 km |
Bağlarbaşı 8 km |
population
The village originally had a Syrian-Christian population. After the exodus of its inhabitants and increasing resettlement, only a small part is Christian today. At the turn of the millennium, Barıştepe had 1,452 inhabitants.
history
According to tradition, the first monastery complex was built here in the 4th century AD on the spot where Mor Barshabo was martyred . With the exception of 1933 to 1936, the monastery was abandoned from 1916 to 1965 and could only be renovated and used again afterwards. At the beginning of the 20th century, Gertrude Bell photographed the village monastery, the Mor Yakup monastery that still exists today . The village was given the Turkish name "Peace Hill" in 1928. The old name can be traced back to various variants (Salih, Salah, Selhe).
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed December 23, 2014
- ↑ www.yerelnet.org.tr
- ↑ Hans Hollerweger: Living cultural heritage - Turabdin: Where the language of Jesus is spoken . Initiative Christian Orient and Friends of Turabdin, 2nd edition (2000), p. 124 ff.
- ↑ library.cu.edu.tr (PDF; 3.3 MB)