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Tepeköy, İdil

Tepeköy (Kurdish: Xerabê Ripin;[2] Syriac: Ḫarābī Rabban)[3][a] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Aluwa and Hesinan tribes and had a population of 1,970 in 2021.[1][6]

History

Ḫarābī Rabban (today called Tepeköy) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[3] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that it had three households, who paid twenty-five dues, and it did not have a priest.[3] There was a church of Morī Barṣawmō.[3] The village was seized by Kurds in the Sayfo.[4]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Kherabe-Rappen.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ Tan (2018), p. 270.
  3. ^ a b c d Bcheiry (2009), p. 55.
  4. ^ a b Gaunt (2006), p. 392.
  5. ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ Baz (2016), p. 140; Tan (2018), p. 270.

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