Elbeğendi, Midyat

Elbeğendi
Elbeğendi
Neighbourhood
	Elbeğendi Location in Turkey
	Coordinates: 37°16′59″N 41°24′29″E / 37.283°N 41.408°E
Country	Turkey
Province	Mardin
District	Midyat
Population (2021)	46
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)

Elbeğendi (Classical Syriac: Kafro Tahtayto^{[nb 1]}) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Midyat, Mardin Province in southeastern Turkey.^[3] It is located in the historical region of Tur Abdin.

In the village, there are churches of Mor Jacob and Mor Barsaumo, the Virgin Mary, and Mor Bosus.^[2]

The village is populated by Assyrians and had a population of 46 in 2021.^[4]^[1]

History

In 1900, Kafro Tahtayto was inhabited by 30 Assyrian families.^[2] Amidst the Assyrian genocide, in 1915, the village's population fled to the Monastery of Mor Malke,^[5] and was uninhabited until the first 8 families returned in 1916.^[2]

The village's population grew to 46 families in 1970, however, they were forced to flee abroad due to the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in the 1980s, and only 5 families remained by 1992.^[2] The village was forcibly evicted by the Turkish army in 1995, and the remaining three families emigrated to Western Europe.^[6]

In 2006, 17 Assyrian families returned to the village from Augsburg and Göppingen in Germany, and Trüllikon and Zürich in Switzerland.^[7]^[8] In late July 2019, Assyrian properties in Kafro Tahtayto were struck by suspected arson attacks.^[9]

Notable people

Iskender Alptekin (1961-2010), Assyrian politician

References

Notes

^ Also simply known as Kafro.^[2]

Citations

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Türkçe). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
^ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 "Kafro" (in Deutsch). Entwicklungsverein Kafro. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Türkçe). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^ Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 206.
^ Kloster Mor Malke. Foundation for Conservation and Promotion of the Aramaic Cultural Heritage. (in German)
^ "Kafro – Ein aramäisches Dorf, das der Staatsdoktrin trotzte". Firat News Agency (in Deutsch). 13 November 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
^ Çaglar (2013), p. 122
^ Güsten (2016), p. 11
^ "Küllerinden doğan Süryani halkını, yangınlarla korkutamazsınız". Assyrian Genocide Research Centre (in Türkçe). 5 August 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

Bibliography

Çaglar, Ayse (2013). "Rescaling cities, cultural diversity, and transnationalism: Migrants of Mardin and Essen". Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism: New Directions, ed. Steven Vertovec. Routledge. pp. 113–139.
Güsten, Susanne (2016). A Farewell to Tur Abdin (PDF). Retrieved 27 December 2019.

[3] Also simply known as Kafro.^[2]

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Türkçe). Retrieved 16 December 2022.

[Kafro-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 "Kafro" (in Deutsch). Entwicklungsverein Kafro. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

[:1-4] "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Türkçe). Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[5] Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 206.

[FCPACH-6] Kloster Mor Malke. Foundation for Conservation and Promotion of the Aramaic Cultural Heritage. (in German)

[7] "Kafro – Ein aramäisches Dorf, das der Staatsdoktrin trotzte". Firat News Agency (in Deutsch). 13 November 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

[8] Çaglar (2013), p. 122

[9] Güsten (2016), p. 11

[10] "Küllerinden doğan Süryani halkını, yangınlarla korkutamazsınız". Assyrian Genocide Research Centre (in Türkçe). 5 August 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

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