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Dargeçit (Syriac: ܟܪܒܘܪܢ Kerburan, Kurdish:Kerboran) is a district of the Mardin Province of Turkey, traditionally an Assyrian/Syriac town. It had approximately 300 families in 1900. During the Assyrian Genocide over 300,000 Assyrians were killed, before this the city was inhabited by Assyrians/Syriacs, Kurds and Armenians. But from 1979 most of the Assyrian/Syriac people fled/left the city after the murder of Andreas Demir Lahdik, the Mayor of Kerburan at the time. The government then changed the name of the city to Dargeçit by force. The town has a population of 17,329 people.
There is the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mor Kuriyakos, which is now restored thanks to the Assyrian/Syriac diaspora. There are also two other churches, one Protestant and the other Catholic, both are in a very bad state.
There is the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mor Kuriyakos, which is now restored thanks to the Assyrian/Syriac diaspora. There are also two other churches, one Protestant and the other Catholic, both are in a very bad state.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dargeçit
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Coordinates: 37°32'38"N 41°42'49"E
- Batman 75 km
- Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality 155 km
- Van Metropolitan Municipality 178 km
- Khoy 303 km
- Erzincan 327 km
- Bayburt ( Baberd ) 337 km
- Köse 353 km
- Kelkit 356 km
- Yerevan 378 km
- Ortahisar (District) 426 km
- Boncuklu Tarla 11 km
- Temple 11 km
- mala mehmet salih_Nebi 20 km
- Tur Abdin 34 km
- Eruh District 36 km
- Kurtalan District 40 km
- Siirt Province 55 km
- Batman Province 60 km
- Şırnak Province 72 km
- Mardin Province 76 km
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