Kuyulu
Kuyulu is located in Turkey
Kuyulu
Kuyulu
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°20′10″N 41°47′24″E / 37.336°N 41.790°E / 37.336; 41.790
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
Districtİdil
Population
 (2021)[1]
394
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)

Kuyulu (Kurdish: Selekûn, Syriac: Shehirkan)[nb 1] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[3] The village is populated by Kurds of the Hesinan tribe and had a population of 394 in 2021.[1][4]

The hamlet of Tepeli is attached to Kuyulu.[3]

History

Shehirkan (today called Kuyulu) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Assyrians.[2] By the time of the Sayfo, the village was inhabited by 100 people in twenty families of whom half were slaughtered whilst the survivors escaped to Hah.[5]

References

Notes

  1. Alternatively transliterated as Cherrigan or Serigir.[2]

Citations

  1. 1 2 "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. 1 2 Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 323.
  3. 1 2 "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. Tan (2018), p. 270.
  5. Gaunt (2006), pp. 258, 427.

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