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Bulaklı, Yüksekova
Bulaklı (, ) is a village in the Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of Doski and Oramar tribes and had a population of 206 in 2023. History The village of Bulaklı was previously Assyrian until Sayfo The Sayfo (, ), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian people, Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan (Iran), Azerbaijan province by Ottoman Army ... and was bought from the central government by Kurds from different tribal backgrounds creating a mixed tribally-composed village. The village was populated by 13 Assyrian families in 1850 and 17 families in 1877. Population Population history from 2007 to 2023: References {{Yüksekova District Villages in Yüksekova District Kurdish settlements in Hakkâri Province Historic Assyrian communities in Hakkâri Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yüksekova District
Yüksekova District is a district in the Hakkâri Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city Yüksekova. Its area is 2,547 km2 and had a population of 121,969 people in 2023. It borders Iran to the east, and Kurdistan Region of Iraq to the south. History The district was historically an important trade route location due to its proximity to Iran. From the 1810s to Sayfo in 1915, the entire population of around the Great Zab was East Syriac Assyrian people, Assyrian whose main occupation was agriculture that consisted of wheat, barley, cotton and tea. The local Assyrian population were descendants of people who found refuge among Kurds from the Golden Horde in the early fifteenth century. Traveller Ely Bannister Soane, Soane visited the district in 1910, describing the area as 'one of the most inaccessible of the many sealed corners of this mountain country'. After the genocide, Assyrian people, Assyrian villages were subsequently populated by Kurds. In 1936, the name of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
