Dedeler, Yüksekova

Neighborhood in Hakkari Province, Turkey

Neighbourhood in Yüksekova, Hakkâri, Turkey
37°29′53″N 44°19′34″E / 37.498°N 44.326°E / 37.498; 44.326CountryTurkeyProvinceHakkâriDistrictYüksekovaMunicipalityYüksekovaPopulation
 (2023)[1]
851Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Dedeler (Kurdish: Zîzan; Syriac: Zīzan)[2][nb 1] is a neighborhood in Yüksekova in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province in Turkey.[4] It is populated by Kurds of the Dirî tribe and had a population of 851 in 2023.[1][5]

Dedeler was a village until 2023.[4]

History

Zīzan (today called Dedeler) was inhabited by 21 Assyrian families in 1850, all of whom were adherents of the Church of the East and were served by one priest and one church as part of the diocese of Gāwār according to the English missionary George Percy Badger.[2] The population had increased to 30 families by 1877 when visited by Edward Lewes Cutts.[2] The village was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in 1915 amidst the Sayfo.[6]

Population

Population history from 1997 to 2023:[7][1]

Population
YearPop.±%
1997656—    
2007991+51.1%
2012951−4.0%
2017923−2.9%
2022880−4.7%
2023851−3.3%

References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Zeezan.[3]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Wilmshurst (2000), p. 302.
  3. ^ Badger 1852, p. 398; Aboona 2008, p. 296.
  4. ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Hakkari'de referandum çalışmaları hız kazandı" (in Turkish). 9 April 2007. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  6. ^ Yacoub (2016), p. 163.
  7. ^ "1997 Population Count" (PDF) (in Turkish). Turkish Statistical Institute. 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 October 2022.

Bibliography

  • Aboona, Hirmis (2008). Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans: Intercommunal Relations on the Periphery of the Ottoman Empire. Cambria Press. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  • Badger, George Percy (1852). The Nestorians and Their Rituals: With the Narrative of a Mission to Mesopotamia and Coordistan in 1842-1844, and of a Late Visit to Those Countries in 1850 ; Also, Researches Into the Present Condition of the Syrian Jacobites, Papal Syrians, and Chaldeans, and an Inquiry Into the Religious Tenets of the Yezeedees. Vol. 1. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  • Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.
  • Yacoub, Joseph (2016). Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Translated by James Ferguson. Oxford University Press.