Çavuşlu (; ) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district 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 ...

Mardin Province Mardin Province (; ; ; ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in Turkey. Its area is 8,780 km2, and its population is 870,374 (2022). The largest city in the province is Kızıltepe, while the capital Mardin is the second largest ci ...

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. Its population is 2,836 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''

belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...

''). The village is populated by

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

of the Kercoz tribe and by the

Mhallami The Mhallami people, also known as Mardelli or alternatively spelled as Mahallami (; ; ; ) are an Arabic-speaking tribal ethnic group traditionally living in and around the city of Mardin, Turkey. Although they originate from a diverse mosaic in ...

History

Çavuşlu is a former Assyrian settlement that is mainly populated by the Mhallami with some Kurdish families. The history of Shorezbah dates back to the earliest settlements in the region, which date to the third century BC. Due to its central location in the eastern Mhalmayto region, Shorezbah became a place where

Syriac christian Syriac Christianity (, ''Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto'' or ''Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā'') is a branch of Eastern Christianity of which formative theological writings and traditional liturgies are expressed in the Classical Syriac language, a vari ...

leaders from surrounding villages would gather to discuss matters of mutual concern, particularly in times of danger or when disputes arose between villages. It is believed that the decision for mass conversion to Islam, in order to protect their children from the wrath of

Nasuh Pasha Nasuh Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian origin. He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 5 August 1611 until 17 October 1614.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish) He was f ...

, was likely made in Shorezbah.Midyat-The city of Religions And Languages, A.Vahap IS., Hedef gazetesi ve matbaacilik, Istanbul, 2006. The village has experienced a population loss in recent years due to economic migration.

References

{{Midyat District Neighbourhoods in Midyat District Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province Historic Assyrian communities in Mardin Province Mhallami villages