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Günyurdu
Neighbourhood
GünyurduLocation in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°08′20″N 41°27′14″E / 37.139°N 41.454°E / 37.139; 41.454
Country	Turkey
Province	Mardin
District	Nusaybin
Population	102
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)

Günyurdu (Kurdish: Merbabê; Syriac: Mār Bōbo) is a village in the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Assyrians and by Kurds of the Mizizex tribe. It had a population of 102 in 2021. It is located in the Raite Forest on the slopes of Mount Izla.

In the village, there is a Syriac Orthodox church of Mār Bōbo and Mar Aho.

History

Mār Bōbo (today called Günyurdu) was historically inhabited by adherents of the Church of the East. The Church of Mār Bōbo was constructed in either the 6th century or the 7th century. The church was likely adopted by Syriac Orthodox Christians in the 18th century. It has been suggested that the village's population may have converted to the Syriac Orthodox Church or the village was abandoned and resettled by Syriac Orthodox Christians. The monk Barṣawmō of Arbo is attested at Mār Bōbo in 1870.

The Syriac Catholic bishop Gabriel Tappouni recorded that Mār Bōbo was inhabited by 300 Assyrians in 50 families and was served by two priests in 1913. In 1914, there were 400 Assyrians, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. They adhered to the Syriac Orthodox Church. It was owned by Sarohan, chief of a subsection of the Haverkan tribe. Amidst the Sayfo, Assyrian refugees from the village of Tel-Aryawon were granted refuge at Mār Bōbo by Sarohan, who subsequently escorted the Assyrians from both villages to Beth-Debe, where they survived the genocide.

There were 410 Turoyo-speaking Christians in 57 families at Mār Bōbo in 1966. The Church of Mar Aho was built in 1975, incorporating the Church of Mar Bobo. In 1995, the village's population of 150 families was forcibly evicted by the Turkish army as part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict and many emigrated abroad to Germany or Switzerland. Mār Bōbo lay abandoned until it was resettled and rebuilt by eight Assyrian families in 2003.

Demography

The following is a list of the number of Assyrian families that have inhabited Mār Bōbo per year stated. Unless otherwise stated, all figures are from the list provided in Eastern Christianity, Theological Reflection on Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Holy Land and Christian Encounter with Islam and the Muslim World, as noted in the bibliography below.

• 1966: 57
• 1979: 67
• 1981: 38
• 1987: 28
• 1995: 0
• 2013: 12–13

References

Notes

1. Alternatively transliterated as Mar-bab, Mär Bab, Marbobo, Merbab, Merbap, Mirbab, Morī Bobo, Mōrbōbō, or Mor Bobo. Nisba: Märbābī.
2. The size of a single family varies between five and ten persons.

Citations

1. ^ "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
2. ^ Ritter (1967), p. 14.
3. Jongerden & Verheij (2012), pp. 249, 325; Palmer (1990), p. 264; Ritter (1967), p. 14; Courtois (2004), p. 42; Bcheiry (2010), p. 77.
4. Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
5. ^ "Turkey´s ancient Christians seek to resettle villages". Hyetert. 3 June 2004. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
6. Tan (2018), "Harita 2: Turabidin ve Berriyê mıntıkalarında yer alan aşiretlerin sınırları ile il, ilçe, köy ve mezralar" .
7. Bcheiry (2010), p. 77; Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 249.
8. ^ Al-Jeloo (2015), p. 114; Keser-Kayaalp (2022), p. 199.
9. ^ Al-Jeloo (2015), p. 114.
10. ^ Keser-Kayaalp (2022), p. 199.
11. Bcheiry (2010), p. 77.
12. Courtois (2004), p. 42.
13. Gaunt (2006), p. 425.
14. Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 325.
15. Gaunt (2006), p. 238.
16. Gaunt (2006), pp. 238, 263.
17. ^ "The road home". Al Jazeera. 19 April 2003. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
18. ^ Brock (2021), p. 167.
19. Courtois (2013), p. 148.

Bibliography

• Al-Jeloo, Nicholas (2015). "Transferrable Religious Heritage: Church Buildings in Northern Mesopotamia". Le patrimoine architectural de l’Église orthodoxe d’Antioche: Perspectives comparatives avec les autres groupes religieux du Moyen-Orient et des régions limitrophes. Publications of the University of Balamand. pp. 111–127. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
• Bcheiry, Iskandar (2010). Collection of Historical Documents in Relation with the Syriac Orthodox Community in the Late Period of the Ottoman Empire: The Register of Mardin MS 1006. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
• Brock, Sebastian (2021). "The Syrian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century". Eastern Christianity, Theological Reflection on Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Holy Land and Christian Encounter with Islam and the Muslim World (PDF). Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust. pp. 155–181. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
• Courtois, Sébastien de (2004). The Forgotten Genocide: Eastern Christians, The Last Arameans. Translated by Vincent Aurora. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
• Courtois, Sébastien de (2013). "Tur Abdin : Réflexions sur l'état présent descommunautés syriaques du Sud-Est de la Turquie,mémoire, exils, retours". Cahier du Gremmamo (in French). 21: 113–150.
• 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, ed. (January 2022). Syriac Architectural Heritage at Risk in TurʿAbdin (PDF). Retrieved 8 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.

• Neighbourhoods in Nusaybin District
• Assyrian communities in Turkey
• Kurdish settlements in Mardin Province
• Places of the Assyrian genocide
• Forcibly depopulated communities