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İdil (, or ''Beth Zabday'', , ) is a city and seat of the İdil District of the Şırnak Province in Turkey. It is located in the historical region of Tur Abdin. The town had a population of 30,271 in 2021 and is composed of Kurds of the Domanan, Dorikan, Harunan, Meman and Omerkan tribes. The town was once home to a large number of Assyrians/Syriacs, however, only a few families remain today. In the city, there is a Syriac Orthodox Church of the Mother of God (, ). History Azakh (today called İdil) is identified as the town of Ashikhu, or Asiḫu, which is earliest attested in an administrative note from the governor's archive at Tell Halaf, during the reign of Adad-nirari III, King of Assyria, in the late 9th and early 8th century BC. Azakh was later conflated with the neighbouring city of Bezabde, and led to its alternative Syriac name Beth Zabday. Ottoman Empire Muhammad Pasha, Emir of Rawandiz, took advantage of the disruption caused to the Ottoman Empire by the E ...
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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 is considered part of the Tur Abdin region, while the eastern part is considered part of the Bohtan region. Settlements İdil District contains three beldes, sixty-five villages, of which three are unpopulated, and nineteen hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f .... Beldes # İdil # Karalar () # Sırtköy () Villages # Açma () # AkdaÄŸ () # Akkoyunlu () # Aksoy () # Alakamış () # BaÅŸakköy () # Bereketli () # Bozburun () # Bozkır () # Çığır () # Çınarlı () # Çukurlu () # Dirsekli ( ...
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