Yarbaşı, İdil

Village in Şırnak Province, Turkey
Village in Şırnak, Turkey
37°23′28″N 41°51′58″E / 37.391°N 41.866°E / 37.391; 41.866CountryTurkeyProvinceŞırnakDistrictİdilPopulation
 (2021)[1]
1,182Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Yarbaşı (Arabic: إِسفِس, Kurdish: Hespîst,[2] Syriac: ܐܣܦܣ, romanized: Isfes)[3][nb 1] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Omerkan tribe and had a population of 1,182 in 2021.[1][2]

There is a church of Mor Dodo.[6]

History

Isfes (today called Yarbaşı) is identified with Hiaspis mentioned by the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus in the 4th century AD along the frontier with the Sasanian Empire.[7] It was noted as the location of the defection of the protector domesticus Antoninus to the Sasanian Empire.[8]

The Syriac Orthodox maphrian Basil Solomon took refuge at Isfes after having fled Mosul in 1514 and remained there until his death in 1518.[9]

An attack by Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz on Isfes resulted in the death of 80 men, including a priest and a notable, and the enslavement of a number of women and children in early 1834.[10]

Amidst the Sayfo in 1915, the Assyrians of Isfes took refuge at Azakh where they were able to resist attacks from the Ottoman army and Kurds.[11]

The Assyrian population of Isfes began to emigrate to Al-Malikiyah in Syria from 1960 onwards and eventually the last Assyrian family left in 1980.[12]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Hespis, Hespist, Espes, or Esfes.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b Baz (2016), p. 133.
  3. ^ Carlson, Thomas A. (14 January 2014). "Isfis". The Syriac Gazetteer. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  4. ^ Palmer 1990, p. 264; Courtois 2013, p. 147.
  5. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ Palmer (1990), pp. 31–32.
  7. ^ Palmer (1990), p. 4.
  8. ^ Dignas & Winter (2007), p. 252.
  9. ^ Barsoum (2009), pp. 163–164.
  10. ^ Barsoum (2008), pp. 128–129.
  11. ^ Sato (2001), p. 54.
  12. ^ Courtois (2013), p. 147.

Bibliography

  • Barsoum, Aphrem (2008). The History of Tur Abdin. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  • Barsoum, Aphrem (2009). The Collected Historical Essays of Aphram I Barsoum. Vol. 1. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  • Baz, Ibrahim (2016). Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü (in Turkish). p. 133. ISBN 9786058849631.
  • Courtois, Sébastien de (2013). "Tur Abdin : Réflexions sur l'état présent descommunautés syriaques du Sud-Est de la Turquie,mémoire, exils, retours". Cahier du Gremmamo (in French). 21: 113–150.
  • Dignas, Beate; Winter, Engelbert (2007). Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals. Cambridge University Press.
  • Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur Abdin. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  • Sato, Noriko (2001). Memory and Social Identity among Syrian Orthodox Christians (PDF). Retrieved 27 December 2019.
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