Gelinkaya () is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of
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 ...
,
Mardin Province,
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
. Its population is 1,542 (2022). Before the
2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''
belde'').
The village is populated by
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...
and
Mhallami.
Etymology
The word 'Keferhuvar' means 'village with white stones' in
Syriac.
History
Gelinkaya is a former
Assyrian
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 ...
village. It became the administrative center for the
Mhallami in the 1850s when a
beg from nearby
Dêrizbin settled in the village, after a conflict with his relatives. After the 1920s, Kurds from nearby villages such as
Deywan and
Helex but also from the
Sinjar region arrived to the village.
Notable people
*
Orhan Miroğlu
Orhan Miroğlu (born 1 January 1953, Mardin, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Mhallami origin and columnist for Taraf and Today's Zaman.
Education and early life
Born in the village of Gelinkaya, Miroğlu spent his youth in Batman and Diya ...
References
{{Midyat District
Neighbourhoods in Midyat District
Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province
Historic Assyrian communities in Turkey
Mhallami villages
Tur Abdin