Ugurca

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Ugurca
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Uğurca (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Batman
District ( ilçe ) : Beşiri
Coordinates : 37 ° 59 '  N , 41 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 58 '44 "  N , 41 ° 19' 51"  E
Height : 582  m
Residents : 32 (2011)
Telephone code : (+90) 488
Postal code : 72240
License plate : 72
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Uğurca ( Kurmanji : Qorix) is a jesidisches village in the southeast of Turkey . The village is located about 9 km northeast of Beşiri in the Beşiri district of the same name in the Batman province . The place is located in Southeast Anatolia .

History and population

The original name of the village is Qorix. The villages were renamed as a result of the Turkishization of geographical names in Turkey . Uğurca is mostly an abandoned village today. The village had an exclusively Yazidi population.

According to the Siirt Province Yearbook of 1973, 271 people lived in the village. In 2009 and 2012 3 families lived in the village.

Individual evidence

  1. Turkish Institute for Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2018 .
  2. Ersoy Soydan: BATMAN YEZIDIS AND YEZIDIS ORAL TRADITION (BATMAN YEZİDİLERİ VE YEZİDİ SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜ) . ( academia.edu [accessed December 31, 2018]).
  3. Batman Haberler Çağdaş Gazetesi: UĞURCA'YA DÖNÜŞ! Retrieved December 31, 2018 (Turkish).
  4. 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 .