Neighbourhood in Midyat, Mardin, Turkey
| Ortaca | |
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| Neighbourhood | |
  OrtacaLocation in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 37°28′26″N 41°33′22″E / 37.474°N 41.556°E / 37.474; 41.556 | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Mardin |
| District | Midyat |
| Population | 747 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Ortaca (Kurdish: Heşterek; Syriac: Eshtrākō) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Midyat, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Assyrians and by Kurds of the Elîkan tribe and had a population of 747 in 2021. It is located in the historic region of Tur Abdin.
History
The Church of Mar Addai at Eshtrākō (today called Ortaca) has been dated to the first century AD. According to an inscription at the Church of Mar Addai, the church and/or the outdoor oratory (Syriac: beth ṣlutho) was constructed in 771/772 (AG 1083). The monk Musa of Eshtrākō is named amongst those who were killed in the Cave of Ibn Siqi by the soldiers of Timur in 1394. In 1454 (AG 1765), many men from the village were suffocated to death by smoke by Turks of the clan of Hasan Beg, as per the account of the priest Addai of Basibrina in c. 1500 appended to the Chronography of Bar Hebraeus.
The village became the seat of a Kurdish agha in the nineteenth century. There were 20 Assyrian families and 200 Kurdish families in 1915. The Assyrians adhered to the Syriac Orthodox Church. Amidst the Sayfo, on 3 July 1915, most of the village's Assyrian population was massacred by their Kurdish neighbours and only twelve survivors managed to get to Hah. The Church of Mar Addai was converted into a mosque. In 1960, the village had a population of 858. In 1966, there were 25 Turoyo-speaking Christians in four families at Eshtrākō. By 1987, there were no remaining Assyrians.
References
Notes
- Alternatively transliterated as Estrako, Heshtarke, Heshtarko, Hesterek, Heshterek, Ishatarko, Ishtarkao, Ishtarko, Ştrāko, or Shterako. Nisba: Ştrākōyo.
Citations
- ^ "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- Palmer (1990), p. 264.
- Palmer (1990), p. 264; Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 322; Gaunt (2006), p. 258; Barsoum (2008), pp. 15, 17, 61; Ritter (1967), p. 12.
- ^ Ritter (1967), p. 12.
- "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- Tan (2018), p. 128.
- Barsoum (2008), p. 15.
- Gaunt (2006), p. 259.
- Keser-Kayaalp (2019), pp. 195, 203; Palmer (1990), pp. 194, 211.
- Barsoum (2008), p. 61.
- Barsoum (2008), pp. 70–71.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), pp. 258–259.
- Courtois (2004), p. 226; Gaunt (2006), pp. 258–259.
- Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 322.
- Courtois (2004), p. 226.
Bibliography
- Barsoum, Aphrem (2008). The History of Tur Abdin. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- Courtois, Sébastien de (2004). The Forgotten Genocide: Eastern Christians, The Last Arameans. Translated by Vincent Aurora. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle, eds. (2012). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915. Brill. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- Keser-Kayaalp, Elif (2019). "Church Building in the Ṭur 'Abdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule". In Alain Delattre; Marie Legendre; Petra Sijpesteijn (eds.). Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (Sixth-Tenth Century). Leiden-Boston: Brill. pp. 176–209. ISBN 9789004386549. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur Abdin. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- Ritter, Hellmut (1967). Turoyo: Die Volkssprache der Syrischen Christen des Tur 'Abdin (in German). Vol. 1. Franz Steiner Verlag.
- Tan, Altan (2018). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye. Aşiretler - Dinler - Diller - Kültürler (in Turkish). Pak Ajans Yayincilik Turizm Ve Diş Ticaret Limited şirketi. ISBN 9789944360944.
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