Dargeçit ( ku, Kerboran) is a town and seat of the
Dargeçit District of
Mardin Province in
Turkey.
The town is principally populated by
Kurds of the Erebiyan tribe and had a population of 14,976 in 2021.
Neighborhoods
The town is divided into the four neighborhoods of Bahçebaşı, Safa, Saray and Tepebaşı.
History
In the nineteenth century, all the urban sttlements in this zone, including
Midyat
Midyat ( ku, Midyad, Syriac: ܡܕܝܕ ''Mëḏyaḏ'', Turoyo: ''Miḏyoyo'', ar, مديات) is a town in the Mardin Province of Turkey. The ancient city is the center of a centuries-old Hurrian town in Upper Mesopotamia. In its long history, the ...
and Kerboran, as well as Mardin and a lot of villages around them and in the
Tur Abdin area were
Syriac Orthodox
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.
References
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Tur Abdin
Assyrian communities in Turkey
Populated places in Mardin Province
Kurdish settlements in Turkey