Yemişli (Midyat)
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Province (il) : | Mardin | |||
District ( ilçe ) : | Midyat | |||
Coordinates : | 37 ° 20 ′ N , 41 ° 20 ′ E | |||
Height : | 920 m | |||
Residents : | 552 (2013) | |||
Telephone code : | (+90) 482 | |||
Postal code : | 47500 | |||
License plate : | 47 |
Yemişli is a Christian village in the Midyat district of the Turkish province of Mardin , which in the past was mainly inhabited by Syrians (also known as Assyrians or Arameans ).
location
Yemişli is located about 72 km east of the provincial capital Mardin and 13 km south of Midyat on a direct road connection to Nusaybin , other villages in the area are distributed as follows:
Midyat 13 km |
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Mardin 72 km |
Taşköy 16 km |
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Nusaybin 35 km |
Üçköy 14 km |
population
Once inhabited by Syriacs , nowadays the population consists mainly of Kurds and only a small part of the Christian indigenous people.
Churches and chapels
The Syrian-Orthodox village once had six chapels and two churches: Mor Quryaqos and Mor Eshayo.
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed November 27, 2014
- ^ People are looking for a home - Arameans and Assyrians between Germany and Turkey. Retrieved on July 27, 2019 (German).