Alan ( syr, Hālānā, ) is a village in the

Şemdinli Şemdinli ( ku, Şemzînan, script=Latn, syr, ܫܲܡܙܕܝܼܢ, Šamzdīn) is a town and district located in the Hakkari Province of southeastern Turkey. It was previously in the Ottoman Vilayet of Van and the district centre was called Nevşehi ...

district of Hakkâri Province in southeastern

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

. The village is populated by the Kurdish Zerzan tribe.

History

In 1877, 100 Nestorian families inhabited Halana, and were served by two functioning churches as part of the archdiocese of Shemsdin.

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* Villages in Hakkâri Province Assyrian communities in Turkey Places of the Assyrian genocide {{EAnatolia-geo-stub Kurdish settlements in Turkey