Uçarlı (; ; ) is a village in the

İdil District İdil District is a district of the Şırnak Province of Turkey. The seat of the district is the town of İdil and the population was 77,105 in 2021. Its area is 1,148 km2. The district was formed in 1937. The western part of the district ...

Şırnak Province Şırnak Province (, ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in Turkey in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. Şırnak Province was created in 1990, with areas that were formerly part of the Siirt Province, Siirt, Hakkâri Province, Hakkâri and Mardin ...

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. The village is populated by

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of the Domanan tribe and had a population of 314 in 2021. It is located 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

Tamars (today called Uçarlı) was historically inhabited by adherents of the

Church of the East The Church of the East ( ) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church, the Chaldean Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches o ...

. Prior to the 18th century, the Church of St. Abba Sallara at Tamars, which had originally belonged to the Church of the East, came under the control of 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 ...

following the conversion of some of the villagers. There was also a Syriac Orthodox Church of the Loaf. Adherents of the Church of the East at Tamars converted to the

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in the 19th century. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 19 households, who paid 69 dues, and it did not have a church or a priest. In 1914, it was populated by 120

Syriacs Syriac may refer to: * Suret, a Neo-Aramaic language * Syriac alphabet, a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language ** Syriac (Unicode block) ** Syriac Supplement * Syriac Christianity, a branch of Eastern Christianity * Syriac lan ...

, according to the list presented to the

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by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. In 1915, there were 20 Syriac families. It served as the residence of the Kurdish chief Muhamma ‘Alo and his clan who belonged to the Haverkan confederation. It was located in the ''

kaza A kaza (, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It is also discussed in English under the names district, subdistrict, and juridical district. Kazas co ...

'' of

Midyat Midyat (, , , ) is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,241 km2, and its population is 120,069 (2022). In the modern era, the town is populated by Kurds, Mhallami Arabs and Assyrians. The old Estel neighborho ...

. 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 ...

, upon hearing of the attack on the neighbouring village of Midun, the Syriacs of Tamars were escorted to safety at Beth Sbirino by Muhamma ‘Alo. The village had a population of 147 in 1960. There were 26

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 five families at Tamars in 1966. By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.

Demography

The following is a list of the number of Syriac families that have inhabited Tamars 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: 20 *1966: 5 *1978: 4 *1979: 2 *1987: 0

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* * * * * * * * * * * {{İdil District Villages in İdil District Kurdish settlements in Şırnak Province Historic Assyrian communities in Şırnak Province Tur Abdin Places of the Sayfo