Doğançay ( syr, ܡܙܝܙܚ, translit=Mzizah, Mizizah; ku, Mizîzex) is a village or rural neighbourhood in
Mardin Province in southeastern
Turkey. It is part of the municipality
Midyat
Midyat ( ku, Midyad, Syriac: ܡܕܝܕ ''Mëḏyaḏ'', Turoyo: ''Miḏyoyo'', ar, مديات) is a town in the Mardin Province of Turkey. The ancient city is the center of a centuries-old Hurrian town in Upper Mesopotamia. In its long history, the ...
.
It is located in the
Midyat District
Midyat District is a district of the Mardin Province of Turkey. The seat of the district is the town of Midyat and the population was 118,625 in 2021.
Status
With the administrative reform in 2012, Midyat District contains seventy-two neighb ...
and the historical region of
Tur Abdin. It is populated by
Assyrians
Assyrian may refer to:
* Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia.
* Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire.
** Early Assyrian Period
** Old Assyrian Period
** Middle Assyrian Empire
** Neo-Assyrian Empire
* Assyrian ...
and by
Kurds of the Zaxuran tribe.
The village had a population of 159 in 2021.
History
The Church of Mor Yuhannon in Mzizah was constructed in the 6th century and the village is first mentioned in 1296. In the early 18th century AD, Assyrians from the village of
Ain Wardo settled in Mzizah. Later, Assyrians from the villages of
Zaz
ZAZ or Zaporizhzhia Automobile Building Plant ( uk, ЗАЗ, Запорізький автомобілебудівний завод, ''Zaporiz'kyi avtomobilebudivnyi zavod'' or ''Zaporiz'kyi avtozavod'') is the main automobile manufacturer of Ukr ...
,
Kfarbe, Bashoq, Urnus, Rowen, and Merin also settled in Mzizah.
Geschichte von Mzizah.
' The village also experienced an influx of
Yazidis from nearby
Kefnas in the 1870s.
In 1915, during the
Assyrian genocide, the majority of the Assyrian population of the village fled to Ain Wardo, where they remained for fifty days until a truce was agreed and they were permitted to return to Mzizah.
[Gaunt et al. (2006), p. 384] However, several Assyrians were killed on the journey to the village and many subsequently fled to Syria.
In 1961, the name of the village was officially changed to Doğançay.
Notable people
*
Ciwan Haco — Born in Syria to a family from Doğançay.
*
Derwich Ferho
References
Bibliography
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Neighbourhoods in Midyat District
Tur Abdin
Assyrian communities in Turkey
Places of the Assyrian genocide
Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province