Üçyol (; ) is a
neighbourhood
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...
in the municipality and district of
Nusaybin
Nusaybin () is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,079 km2, and its population is 115,586 (2022). The city is populated by Kurds of different tribal affiliation.
Nusaybin is separated from the larger Kurd ...
,
Mardin Province
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in
Turkey
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.
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. The village is populated by Syriacs and had a population of 64 in 2021.Mount Izla
Mount Izla ( ''Ṭūr Īzlā' ''),Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Izla — ܛܘܪܐ ܕܐܝܙܠܐ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified January 14, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/100. also Mountain of Nisibis or briefly in the 9th century Moun ...
in the historic region of Tur Abdin
Tur Abdin (; ; ; or ) is a hilly region situated in southeast Turkey, including the eastern half of the Mardin Province, and Şırnak Province west of the Tigris, on the Syria–Turkey border, border with Syria and famed since Late Antiquity for ...
.
History
In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that Sīdrī (today called Üçyol) had 4 households, who did not pay any dues, and was served by the Church of Yūldaṯ Alohō, but did not have a priest. They adhered to the Syriac Orthodox Church
The Syriac Orthodox Church (), also informally known as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian denomination, denomination that originates from the Church of Antioch. The church currently has around 4-5 million followers. The ch ...
. Amidst the 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 ...
, survivors took refuge at the Mor Malke Monastery. The village had a population of 205 in 1960. There were 287 Turoyo
Turoyo (), also referred to as Surayt (), or modern Suryoyo (), is a Central Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by the Syriac Christian community in the Tur Abdin region located in southeastern Turkey and in northeastern Syria. Turoyo ...
-speaking Christians in 39 families in 1966. By 1999, it had been abandoned by the Christians.
Demography
The following is a list of the number of Syriac families that have inhabited Sīdrī per year stated. Unless otherwise stated, all figures are from the list provided in ''The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond: Crisis then Revival'', as noted in the bibliography below.
*1915: 10/20
*1966: 39
*1978: 36
*1979: 35
*1981: 22
*1987: 18
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