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Sürgücü, Savur

Coordinates: 37°34′52″N 40°44′13″E / 37.581°N 40.737°E / 37.581; 40.737
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Sürgücü
Sürgücü is located in Turkey
Sürgücü
Sürgücü
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°34′52″N 40°44′13″E / 37.581°N 40.737°E / 37.581; 40.737
CountryTurkey
ProvinceMardin
DistrictSavur
Population
 (2022)
2,379
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Sürgücü (Kurdish: Ewîna; Syriac: Awina)[1][a] is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Savur, Mardin Province, Turkey.[3] Its population is 2,379 (2022).[4] Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).[5][6] It is populated by Kurds of the Surgucu tribe.[7] It is located in the historic region of Tur Abdin.[1]

History

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Awina (today called Sürgücü) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Assyrians.[8] The kaza of Awina in the sanjak of Mardin in the Diyarbekir vilayet was named after the village although the administrative seat was at Savur.[9] The Chaldean Catholic priest Joseph Tfinkdji estimated the village's population as 600 in 1914, including 60 Chaldean Catholics and Armenian Catholics, who did not have a priest, church, or school, whilst the rest of the population was Muslim.[10] In 1914, it was populated by 100 Assyrians, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[11] The Christians at Awina were massacred on 1 June 1915 amidst the Sayfo.[12]

References

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Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Avina, Avine, Avineh, Avinek, Avnié, Owena, or Uuéna.[2]

Citations

  1. ^ a b Barsoum (2008), p. 16.
  2. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 324; Gaunt (2006), pp. 244, 424; Courtois (2004), p. 5; Yacoub (2016), p. 117.
  3. ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Law No. 6360". Official Gazette (in Turkish). 6 December 2012.
  6. ^ "Classification tables of municipalities and their affiliates and local administrative units" (DOC). Official Gazette (in Turkish). 12 September 2010.
  7. ^ Tan (2018), p. 283.
  8. ^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 324.
  9. ^ Yacoub (2016), p. 117; Courtois (2004), p. 5.
  10. ^ Courtois (2004), p. 72.
  11. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 424.
  12. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 244.

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