Binebil
Binebil ( Turkish Bülbül or Benabil ) is a small Turkish village 12 km east and 3/4 hours from Mardin . It is located on the southern slopes of the Tur Abdin below an approximately 200 m high rock wall. The rock monastery of St. Stephen is located above the village.
population
The 285 inhabitants of this village mostly speak Mardin Arabic, of which 30 families were still Christian ( Syrian Orthodox ) until 1980 . Her priest was Jakup Günay, who was born in Keferze (TurAbdin / Turkey) and died in Binebil in 2007. He was ordained a priest in 1954, hence the name of the village church "MorJakup".
The mayor of Binebil was Yusuf Yilmaz from the "Mallo" family, the richest and probably largest family in Binebil. Today the family members live scattered in Syria, Lebanon, Belgium, Turkey and Austria. Yusuf Yilmaz died in 2002, leaving seven children in Istanbul.
history
In Byzantine times the fortress "Benabelon" stood here. The Mor Stephanus monastery known from Syrian church history , now in ruins, is located near the village. In the 16th century, Benabil was predominantly Christian; its population grew from 1518 to 1554 by 87 to 102 houses.
The place was mentioned several times in connection with copied manuscripts and their copyists . When the missionary Pany visited Benabil around 1895, he experienced a violent argument about a girl who had run away from her fiancé to marry another man. Only the patriarch's word of power could settle the dispute by having the young husband pay a large sum of money to the family of the abandoned groom.
Sons and daughters
- Naum Melo (* 1957), Aramaic writer
crime
On November 14, 1990, more than 100 Arameans were murdered by Kurdish rebels, four of them came from Binebil (Ünal Semun, Akgül Bahhe, Sürer Yusuf and Büyükbas Celil).
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Coordinates: 37 ° 19 ′ N , 40 ° 50 ′ E