Baz () was one of the five independent
Assyrian tribes of the
Hakkari region.
History
Maha Khtayya was the chief village of the region, followed by Shwawwa.
The Assyrians of the Baz tribe were renowned carpenters and iron-workers who worked not only in their villages, but throughout
Mosul
Mosul ( ; , , ; ; ; ) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. It is the second largest city in Iraq overall after the capital Baghdad. Situated on the banks of Tigris, the city encloses the ruins of the ...
and other large towns of
Upper Mesopotamia
Upper Mesopotamia constitutes the Upland and lowland, uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East. Since the early Muslim conquests of the mid-7th century, the regio ...
.
Assyrian Villages in Baz, Turkey
The Assyrian settlements that traditionally comprised the Baz region in Hakkari consist of the following villages.
The region has been empty since they were abandoned in 1915 due to the
Assyrian genocide
The Sayfo (, ), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish tribes during ...
.
*Arwantus (Artusnaye)
*Shwawwa (Shawutnaye)
*Maha Khtayya (Mahaye) (37°27 N, 43°53 E)
*Be-Selim (Selimnaye)
*Argab (Argabaye)
*Kojij (Kojijnaye)
Current Baznaye settlements
These are the villages occupied after the Baznaye were resettled by the British in 1920s and the French in the 1930s.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...
*Babilo (Shawutnaye)
*Bagereh (Selimnaye)
*Chaqala (Kojijnaye)
*Sardarawa (Artusnaye)
*Sorka (Mahaye)
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Simele
Simele or Semel (, , Syriac: ܣܡܠܐ) is a town located in the Dohuk province of Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The town is on the main road that connects Kurdistan Region to its neighbor Turkey. It is west of Dohuk. The town had a population of ...
(Mahaye)
*Badarrash (Artusnaye)
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Sarsing
Sarsing (, ) is a town and sub-district in the Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the Sapna valley in the Amedi District.
In the town, there is a church of Mar (title), Mar Mattai. There was previously a shrine of Mar ...
(Artusnaye)
*Sikren (Selimnaye)
*Sedar (Shawutnaye)
*Pirozawa (Argabaye)
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Ain Sifni
Ain Sifni (, , ) also known as Shekhan (), is a town and subdistrict in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It is located in the Shekhan District in the Nineveh Plains. Ain Sifni is largely populated by Yazidis, most of whom speak Kurmanji Kurdish.
In ...
(Mixed Baznaye)
*Mawana (Mixed Baznaye)
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...
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Tell Baz (Shawutnaye, Mahaye and some Argabaye)
*Tell Ruman Foqani (Selimnaye and Mahaye)
Famous people
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General Agha Petros Elia -
Assyrian military leader during
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
and Chief Negotiator for the Assyrian people during the 1920s.
References
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Hakkari
Assyrian tribes