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Görümlü, Silopi

Coordinates: 37°20′02″N 42°34′16″E / 37.334°N 42.571°E / 37.334; 42.571
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Görümlü
Görümlü is located in Turkey
Görümlü
Görümlü
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°20′02″N 42°34′16″E / 37.334°N 42.571°E / 37.334; 42.571
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
DistrictSilopi
Population
 (2023)[1]
5,187
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Görümlü (Kurdish: Bêspin,[2] Syriac: Bespīn)[3][nb 1] is a municipality (belde) in the Silopi District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] It is populated by Kurds of the Girkê Emo tribe and had a population of 5,187 in 2023.[1][2]

The neighbourhoods of Görümlü are Boğaz, Yeni Mahalle and Yolağızı.[5]

History

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Bespīn (today called Görümlü) was historically inhabited by Chaldean Catholic Assyrians.[6] According to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation, the village was inhabited by 200 Assyrians in 1914.[7] A church that had been built just prior to the First World War was confiscated in 1915 as it was too close to a Muslim cemetery.[8] Amidst the Sayfo, Bespīn was destroyed by Bohtan Kurds.[9] After 1980, 500 of the 544 Assyrians at Bespīn were forced to emigrate and abandon their property due to the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.[10]

Population

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Population history from 2007 to 2023:[1]

Population
YearPop.±%
20073,113—    
20103,290+5.7%
20154,149+26.1%
20204,986+20.2%
20235,187+4.0%

References

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Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Baspin, Besbin, Besbine, Betspen, or Bespen.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b Baz (2016), p. 151.
  3. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 111.
  4. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 207; Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 327; Yacoub (2016), p. 195.
  5. ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 327.
  7. ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 207, 426.
  8. ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 120.
  9. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 207.
  10. ^ Yacoub (2016), p. 197.

Bibliography

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  • Baz, Ibrahim (2016). Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü (in Turkish). p. 151. ISBN 9786058849631.
  • Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  • Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle (2012). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915. Brill.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.
  • Yacoub, Joseph (2016). Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Translated by James Ferguson. Oxford University Press.