Kumgeçit

	Kumgeçit
Basic data
Province (il) :	Batman
District ( ilçe ) :	Beşiri
Coordinates :	37 ° 49 ' N , 41 ° 29' E Coordinates: 37 ° 49 '10 " N , 41 ° 28' 45" E
Height :	512 m
Residents :	51 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+90) 488
Postal code :	72200
License plate :	72

Kumgeçit ( Kurmanji : Bazîvan even Bazîwan) is a jesidisches village in the southeast of Turkey . The village is located about 20 km southeast of Beşiri in the district of the same name Beşiri in the Batman province . The place is located in Southeast Anatolia .

History and population

The original name of the village is Bazivan (also Baziwan). The villages were renamed as a result of the Turkishization of geographical names in Turkey . Today Kumgeçit is mostly an abandoned village. The village had an exclusively Yazidi population.

In 2000 there were still 15 people living in the village. In 2012 5 families lived there.

Individual evidence

↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
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↑ Ersoy Soydan: BATMAN YEZIDIS AND YEZIDIS ORAL TRADITION (BATMAN YEZİDİLERİ VE YEZİDİ SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜ) . ( academia.edu [accessed December 31, 2018]).
^ Anatolic index. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
↑ Yezidiler / Ezidiler kimdir? | BirGün Gazetesi. Retrieved December 31, 2018 (tr-TR).
↑ ON FINAL SETTLEMENT PLACES AND POPULATION OF EZIDIS, AN ETHNO-RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, IN BATMAN AND NEARBY VICINITY. (PDF) In: Turkish Studies. Accessed December 31, 2018 .

[1] Turkish Institute for Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2018 .

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[3] Ersoy Soydan: BATMAN YEZIDIS AND YEZIDIS ORAL TRADITION (BATMAN YEZİDİLERİ VE YEZİDİ SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜ) . ( academia.edu [accessed December 31, 2018]).

[4] Anatolic index. Accessed December 31, 2018 .

[5] Yezidiler / Ezidiler kimdir? | BirGün Gazetesi. Retrieved December 31, 2018 (tr-TR).

[6] ON FINAL SETTLEMENT PLACES AND POPULATION OF EZIDIS, AN ETHNO-RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, IN BATMAN AND NEARBY VICINITY. (PDF) In: Turkish Studies. Accessed December 31, 2018 .