Dilektepe, Baykan

Dilektepe
Village
Dilektepe Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 38°04′52″N41°49′52″E / 38.081°N 41.831°E / 38.081; 41.831
Country	Turkey
Province	Siirt
District	Baykan
Population  (2021) [1]	235
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)

Dilektepe (Kurdish : Minar; Syriac : Man'ar) ^{[2] [a]} is a village in the Baykan District of Siirt Province in Turkey. ^[4] The village had a population of 235 in 2021. ^[1]

History

Man'ar (today called Dilektepe) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians or Armenians. ^[5] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 21 households, who paid 83 dues, and it had one priest. ^[2] There was a church of Morī Zayā and a church of Morī Gewargīs and Morī Qawmī. ^[2] It was located in the district of al-Zarqiyyah. ^[2] In 1895, amidst the Hamidian massacres, the village was completely ruined and depopulated after it was plundered and its population was massacred and kidnapped, according to one source, whereas James Henry Monahan, the British Vice-Consul of Bitlis, recorded that he had heard that the village was unaffected. ^[5] Monahan noted the village was populated by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Muslim Kurds in 1898. ^[6]

References

Notes

1. Also spelt as Menar or Mnar. ^[3]

Citations

1. "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
2. Bcheiry (2009), p. 46.
3. Verheij (2017), pp. 138–139.
4. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
5. Verheij (2017), p. 138.
6. Demir Görür (2020), pp. 251–252.

Bibliography

• Bcheiry, Iskandar (2009). The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Register of Dues of 1870: An Unpublished Historical Document from the Late Ottoman Period. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
• Demir Görür, Emel (2020). "İngiliz Konsolos James Henry Monahan'ın Raporlarında Bitlis Vilayeti (1896-1898)". Akademik Bakış (in Turkish). 13 (26): 244–266. doi: 10.19060/gav.750472 . Retrieved 2 May 2025.
• Verheij, Jelle (2017). ""The year of the firman:" The 1895 massacres in Hizan and Şirvan (Bitlis vilayet)". Études arméniennes contemporaines. 10 (10): 125–159. Retrieved 16 September 2020.