Beyyurdu (; syr, Beṯ Daiwe) is a village in the

Şemdinli District Şemdinli District is a district in the Hakkâri Province of Turkey. The district had a population of 42,471 in 2022 with the town of Şemdinli as its seat. Its area is 1,209 km2. The district was established in 1936. Part of the district wa ...

in Hakkâri Province in

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. The village is populated by

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of the Herkî tribe and had a population of 346 in 2022. There was a church of

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Cyriacus and

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. The

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of Kayacık is attached to the village.

History

The former name of the village was Bedevi. The village was inhabited by 24

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families in 1877 when visited by

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, all of whom were adherents of the

Church of the East The Church of the East ( syc, ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ, ''ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā'') or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church or the Nestorian C ...

and were served by one functioning church as part of the archdiocese of Shemsdin. It was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in 1915 amidst the Sayfo. The village was evacuated in the 1990s during the

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Population

Population history from 1997 to 2022:

References

Bibliography

* * * {{Şemdinli District Villages in Şemdinli District Kurdish settlements in Hakkâri Province Historic Assyrian communities in Turkey Places of the Assyrian genocide