Doğançay (Mardin)
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| Province (il) : | Mardin | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | Midyat | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 22 ' N , 41 ° 27' E | |||
| Residents : | 180 (2011) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 482 | |||
| Postal code : | 47 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 47 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2006) | ||||
| Mayor : | Abdel Karim | |||
Doğançay ( Aramaic ܡܙܝܙܚ Mizizah , also Mzizah , Kurdish Mizîzex ) is a village in the district of Midyat in the province of Mardin in southeastern Turkey in the Tur Abdin mountain range . The place had 180 inhabitants in 2011 and is inhabited by Arameans and Kurds .
location
Dogançay is about 10 km southeast of Midyat and about 16 km from the Mor Gabriel monastery , north of the newly built road from Mardin to Cizre in central Tur Abdin , other villages in the area are distributed as follows:
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Midyat 10 km |
Gülgöze 11 km |
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Yemişli 24 km |
Taşköy 23 km |
Yayvantepe 14 km |
Doğançay is located in the center of a plateau with a radius of 2 km and is surrounded by fertile arable land. The main road to the village leads past a pond, from which you can see the elongated place with its castle and the Mor Yuhanun church, built in the 6th century .
population
The first inhabitants of Mizizah came from Iwardo at the beginning of the 19th century and then from other Aramaic villages, including Bashoq / Beth-Ishok, Kafarbe, Urnus / Arnas, Iwardo, Rowen and Zaz. Today (2008) only 6 Aramaic families live in this village. Some of the abandoned houses are now used by the 30 or so Kurdish families as storage facilities, but most of the houses are empty and some of them have fallen into disrepair. Of the former Aramaic population, 30 families now live in Syria, 339 in Germany, 30 in the Netherlands, 124 in Sweden, one in Belgium and four in Istanbul.
Economy and Infrastructure
The population lives mainly from agriculture and animal husbandry, agriculture is mainly done for self-sufficiency. Wine is also grown.
history
Genocide 1915
In the year of the sword, 1915, there were about seventy Aramaic and fifty Kurdish families in the village. When the massacres of the Christians began, a large part of them fled to Aynwardo , where they survived a siege of more than 50 days. When they returned after the following armistice, several of them were killed on the way home. Some fled to Syria, later many emigrated to Europe.
Churches and religion
In Mizizah only the church of St. John of Kfone , built in the sixth century, remains . It is located in the middle of the village. Of the other churches, Mor Bar Saumo and Mor Shem'un , only ruins can be seen.
St. John of Kfone , to whom the church is dedicated, was born in Athens. As a disciple of St. Mar Augin, he served as a messenger of the gospel throughout Tur Abdin from the end of the fourth to the beginning of the fifth centuries. According to legend, he was buried in the village of Kfone ( Derikvan in Turkish ) near Zaz .
There is still a church school with about 20 students, it is looked after by an altar boy named Murat bar Isa Aydin.
Known residents
Mor Kyrillos Yausef Mizahoyo, son of Nison, was bishop of the diocese of Hah in Tur Abdin until he was the 91st Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church , Mor Behnam Hedloyo (1413-1455), in 1446 as Archbishop of the Diocese of Phenicia (now Lebanon ) consecrated. The high point of his career was in 1467 the consecration as Catholicos ( Aramaic Maphiryono ) of the Diocese of the East (today Iran, Iraq) by the 92nd Patriarch Chalaf Macednoyo (1456–1484). He then got the nickname Kyrillos. He later settled in the Diocese of Homs in Syria , where he is also buried.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics accessed September 2, 2012 ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ 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 , pp. 384f.