Ardıç, Gercüş
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Ardıç () is a village in the
Gercüş District Gercüş District is a district of Batman Province in Turkey. The town of Gercüş is the seat and the district had a population of 19,304 in 2021.
of the
Batman Province Batman Province (, ; ) is a province in Turkey. It was created in May 1990 with the Law No. 3647 taking some parts from the eastern Province of Siirt and some from the southern Province of Mardin. Its area is 4,477 km2, and its population i ...
in
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. The village is populated by Sunni
Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...
of the Kercoz tribe and had a population of 30 in 2022.


History

The first mention of the village was in a 1928 record, where it used to be called ''Xirbemerci''. The village reached 224 inhabitants in 1935.


Geography

Ardıç is 78 km (48.5 miles) away from the Batman city center and 18 km (11.2 miles) away from the
Gercüş Gercüş (; ) is a town and seat of the Gercüş District of Batman Province in Turkey. The town is populated by Kurds of the Kercoz tribe and had a population of 6,064 in 2021. The town is divided into the neighbourhoods of Bağlarbaşı, Çuk ...
district center.


Population

The village is mostly inhabited by Kurds.


Historical population


References

{{Gercüş District Villages in Gercüş District Kurdish settlements in Batman Province