Yemişli, Uludere
Yemişli (Kurdish: Mergeh; Syriac: Margā) is a village in the Uludere District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Goyan tribe and had a population of 2,749 in 2023.
The hamlet of Yekmal is attached to Yemişli.
History
Margā (today called Yemişli) was inhabited by 760 Chaldean Catholic Assyrians in 1913 and had one church and one priest as part of the diocese of Zakho. The village was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in June 1915 amidst the Sayfo and its inhabitants were later resettled at Berseve near Zakho in Iraq.
Population
Population history from 2007 to 2023:
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 2,119 | — |
| 2010 | 2,365 | +11.6% |
| 2015 | 3,433 | +45.2% |
| 2020 | 2,885 | −16.0% |
| 2023 | 2,749 | −4.7% |
References
- ^ "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ Baz (2016), p. 125.
- ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 109.
- ^ Dersan, Nilüfer; Fazlıoğlu, Aygül (2002). "Şırnak ili Uludere ilçesi köyleri katılımcı kırsal kalkınma temelli alan araştırması" (PDF) (in Turkish). p. 7. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Yacoub (2016), pp. 166, 189.
Bibliography
- Baz, Ibrahim (2016). Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü (in Turkish). ISBN 9786058849631.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.
- Yacoub, Joseph (2016). Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Translated by James Ferguson. Oxford University Press.