Bağdere, Silvan

Coordinates: 38°07′07″N 40°44′09″E / 38.1186°N 40.7358°E

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Bağdere
Neighbourhood
Bağdere Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 38°07′07″N 40°44′09″E / 38.1186°N 40.7358°E / 38.1186; 40.7358
Country	Turkey
Province	Diyarbakır
District	Silvan
Population (2022)	605
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)

Bağdere (Kurdish: Başnîk; Syriac: Bāšnīq)^[1]^[a] is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.^[3] It is populated by Kurds and had population of 605 in 2022.^[4]^[5]

History

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Bāšnīq (today called Bağdere) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians.^[6] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had twelve households, who paid sixty-three dues, and did not have a priest.^[1] There was a church of Yūldaṯ Alohō.^[1] There were three Armenian hearths in 1880.^[7] In 1914, there were 200 Syriacs at Bāšnīq, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[8] The Armenians were killed by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.^[9]

References

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Notes

^ Alternatively transliterated as Bachinik, Bachirik, Bachnegh, Bachnic, Bachnik’, or Başnik.^[2]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c Bcheiry (2009), p. 66.
^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 311.
^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ Tîgrîs & Çakar (2012), p. 483.
^ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 311; Kévorkian (2011), p. 367.
^ Kévorkian (2006), p. 272.
^ Gaunt (2006), p. 422.
^ Kévorkian (2011), pp. 367–368.

Bibliography

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Bcheiry, Iskandar (2009). The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Register of Dues of 1870: An Unpublished Historical Document from the Late Ottoman Period. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
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.
Kévorkian, Raymond H. (2006). "Demographic Changes in the Armenian Population of Diarbekir, 1895-1914". In Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.). Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa. Mazda Publishers. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
Kévorkian, Raymond (2011). The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History. I.B. Tauris.
Tîgrîs, Amed; Çakar, Yıldız (2012). Amed : erdnîgarî, dîrok, çand (in Kurdish).

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