Cevizli () is a village in the

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Hakkâri Province Hakkâri Province (, ; ), is a province in the southeast of Turkey. The administrative centre is the city of Hakkâri. Its area is 7,095 km2, and its population is 287,625 (2023). The current Governor is Ali Çelik. The province encompasses ...

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. The village is populated by

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of the Pinyanişî tribe and had a population of 59 in 2023. The four

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 ...

of Başak (), Güven (), Sütlü () and Yaylak () are attached to Cevizli. Güven and Sütlü are unpopulated. Cevizli was depopulated in the 1990s during the

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History

The village of Gûzereş was the only

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village in the valley of Tkhuma prior to

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, the current hamlets of Başak (''Gundik''), Sütlü (), and Yaylak (Mezrî) were Assyrian villages prior to

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. They existed under the names Gundiktha, Khani and Mazra'a respectively. In 1698, a scribe in

Qudshanis Qudshanis (also: ''Kuçanis''Pishon/Uizhun ''one of the four rivers of Paradise; and the Patriarch will occasionally date his official letters from my cell on the River of the Garden of Eden. See also * List of Assyrian villages * Zagros Mountai ...

named Abraham was from the village of Mazra'a. Also, in 1785 a manuscript was copied by deacon Hajo of Gundiktha. Both are notable manuscript references to the villages. The village of Khani was established toward the end of the 19th century. The village of Mazra'a contained the famous church of Mar Pethiōn, while the village of Gundiktha had the church of Mar Khananya.

Population

Population history of the village from 1965 to 2023:

Pre-Assyrian Genocide Population

The village of Gûzereş itself was inhabited by 50 Kurdish families in 1914 according to Agha Petros. The following Assyrian populations are given by Bagder (1850) and Cutts (1877) Gundiktha: 110 families (1850), 150 families (1877) Mazra'a: 130 families (1850), 180 families (1877) Khani: 50 families (1909)

References

{{Çukurca District Kurdish settlements in Hakkâri Province Villages in Çukurca District Historic Assyrian communities in Hakkâri Province