Tell Nasri

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تل نصري / Tall Naṣrī
Tell Nasri
Basic data
Country Syria

Governorate

al-Hasakah
ISO 3166-2 SY-HA
Residents 650 (2004)

Tell Nasri ( Arabic تل نصري, DMG Tall Naṣrī ), also Walṭo ( Arabic ولطو, DMG Walṭū , Syriac-Aramaic ܘܐܠܛܘ Walṭo ), is a town on the Chabur River in north-eastern Syria in the al-Hasakah governorate . It is located 1.5 km south of Tell Tamer , where the seat of the district ( Nahiya ) is located, and about 38.5 km north of the city of al-Hasakah . Before the civil war in Syria , Tell Nasri had a population of around 1,000, mostly Chabur-Assyrians , but after the end of the Daesh (IS) reign of terror , which destroyed all houses, only five people lived here in 2019.

history

Tell Nasri or Walṭo, like the other villages of the Chabur Assyrians, was founded in the 1930s by Assyrian refugees from the Hakkari area , all of whom belonged to the Assyrian Church of the East . The founders of the place belonged to the Walṭo tribe, which in turn belonged to the larger tribe of the Upper Tyari. They came from four villages of the Walṭwaye - "people of Walṭo" - in the mountains of Hakkâri: Rišənera, Mata d-Mat-Maryam, Sərṭa and Xədyān. In 1934 the pilgrimage church of Mat-Maryam (St. Mary's) was built from clay, but at the end of the 20th century a new, from afar visible church of Mat-Maryam was built from concrete with two high towers, which is the largest of all churches in the Assyrian Church of the East in Syria was true. With about 1000 inhabitants, Tell Nasri was the third largest village of the Chabur Assyrians after Halmun (Tell Jemah) and Tell Tamer.

During the civil war in Syria , the Islamist terrorist organization Daesh (IS) attacked the Assyrian villages on the Chabur on February 23, 2015 and, despite resistance from Kurdish and Assyrian units of the Syrian Democratic Forces , conquered the entire area, including Tell Nasri, within three days. All residents left the place before the threatened reign of terror. The Islamists destroyed all the houses of the Chabur Assyrians. On Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015, units of the Syrian Democratic Forces tried unsuccessfully to retake the place. On that day, at 9 a.m., the Islamists blew up St. Mary's Church, which has since been in ruins, as has most of the residential buildings. In May 2015, the Syrian Democratic Forces succeeded in retaking Tell Nasri as a result of US air strikes against Daesh. After the end of the reign of terror, five of the former 1000 inhabitants (or 650 in 2004 according to the census) - members of a family - returned to Tell Nasri by 2019.

Surname

The name Tell Nasri is derived from Arabicتل / tall ("hill") andنصري / naṣrī (“Nazarenes”, Islamic term for “Christian”), can therefore be translated as “hill of Christians”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shabo Talay : The New Aramaic Dialects of the Khabur Assyrians in Northeast Syria: Introduction, Phonology and Morphology. Semitica Viva 40, Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 2008, p. 21.
  2. ↑ Ben Hubbard: 'There Are No Girls Left': Syria's Christian Villages Hollowed Out by ISIS. New York Times , August 15, 2018.
  3. ^ ISIS Destroys Assyrian Church in Syria. Assyrian International News Agency (AINA News), April 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Christmas revived in a village devastated by Islamic State. Reuters, December 26, 2018.
  5. ^ A b Mart Meryem: Assyrian Church in Tel Nasri. Aid to the Church in Need, ACN International. Christians of Syria, ACN Syria, accessed May 19, 2020.
  6. ↑ Otmar Oehring: On the situation and perspectives of Christians in north and north-east Syria. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin 2019. pp. 32–35, tables in the appendix pp. 82–85.
  7. ^ Entry Nazarenes in the Encyclopedia of Islam, accessed on May 25, 2020.

Coordinates: 36 ° 38 '  N , 40 ° 22'  E