Pınarbaşı (; ) is a

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

in the municipality and district of

Bismil Bismil () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,679 km2, and its population is 118,698 (2022). The district was established on 4 January 1936. Neighborhoods There are 122 mahalle ...

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. The village is populated by

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of the Barava tribe and had a population of 218 in 2022.

History

Maṭarī (today called Pınarbaşı) was historically inhabited by

Syriac Orthodox Christians The Syriac Orthodox Church (), also informally known as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian denomination, denomination that originates from the Church of Antioch. The church currently has around 4-5 million followers. The ch ...

. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had eight households, who paid twenty-six dues, and was served by one priest. There was a church of Yūldaṯ Alohō. It was located in the district of al-Bahramakiyyah. There were 150

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in 1914, according to the list presented to the

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by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.

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* * * * {{Bismil District Neighbourhoods in Bismil District Kurdish settlements in Diyarbakır Province Historic Assyrian communities in Diyarbakır Province