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İdil District
İdil District is a district of the Şırnak Province of Turkey. The seat of the district is the town of İdil and the population was 77,105 in 2021. Its area is 1,148 km2. The district was formed in 1937. The western part of the district is considered part of the Tur Abdin region, while the eastern part is considered part of the Bohtan region. Settlements İdil District contains three Belde, beldes, sixty-five villages, of which three are unpopulated, and nineteen Hamlet (place), hamlets. Beldes # İdil # Karalar, İdil, Karalar () # Sırtköy, İdil, Sırtköy () Villages # Açma, İdil, Açma () # Akdağ, İdil, Akdağ () # Akkoyunlu, İdil, Akkoyunlu () # Aksoy, İdil, Aksoy () # Alakamış, İdil, Alakamış () # Başakköy, İdil, Başakköy () # Bereketli, İdil, Bereketli () # Bozburun, İdil, Bozburun () # Bozkır, İdil, Bozkır () # Çığır, İdil, Çığır () # Çınarlı, İdil, Çınarlı () # Çukurlu, İdil, Çukurlu () # Dirsekli, İdil, Dirse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İdil
İdil ( syr, ܐܙܟ, Azakh, or ''Beth Zabday'', ku, Hezex, ar, آزخ, Azekh) is a city and district in Şırnak Province in southeastern Turkey. It is located in the historical region of Tur Abdin. In the city, there is a Syriac Orthodox Church of the Mother of God ( ar, كنيسة العذراء, tr, Meryem Ana Kilisesi). History Azakh (today called İdil) is identified as the town of Ashikhu, or Asiḫu, which is earliest attested in an administrative note from the governor's archive at Tell Halaf, during the reign of Adad-nirari III, King of Assyria, in the late 9th and early 8th century BC. Azakh was later conflated with the neighbouring city of Bezabde, and led to its alternative Syriac name Beth Zabday. Ottoman Empire Mohammed Paşa, Emir of Rowanduz, took advantage of the disruption caused to the Ottoman Empire by the Egyptian invasion of Syria in 1831–1832 to expand his realm, and besieged Azakh in 1834. The emir surrendered, however, upon the arrival of a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |