Asmadere (; ) is a village in the

Beşiri District Beşiri District is a district of the Batman Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Beşiri.

Batman Province Batman Province (, ; ) is a province in Turkey. It was created in May 1990 with the Law No. 3647 taking some parts from the eastern Province of Siirt and some from the southern Province of Mardin. Its area is 4,477 km2, and its population i ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. 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 Elîkan tribe and had a population of 517 in 2021.

History

Al-Hūb (today called Asmadere) was historically inhabited by

Syriac Orthodox Christians 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 ...

. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 11 households, who paid 32 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.

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* * {{Beşiri District Villages in Beşiri District Kurdish settlements in Batman Province Historic Assyrian communities in Batman Province