Kocapınar  | |
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![]() Kocapınar Location in Turkey  | |
| Coordinates: 37°17′38″N 42°03′54″E / 37.294°N 42.065°E | |
| Country | Turkey | 
| Province | Şırnak | 
| District | Cizre | 
| Population  (2021)[1]  | 806 | 
| Time zone | TRT (UTC+3) | 
Kocapınar (Kurdish: Emerîn, Syriac: ‘Amīrīn)[2][nb 1] is a village in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Amara and Meman tribes and had a population of 806 in 2021.[1][6]
History
‘Amīrīn (today called Kocapınar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic Assyrians,[3] of whom the latter had formerly adhered to the Church of the East.[4] The priest and monk Gīwārgīs of ‘Amīrīn is attested at the Church of the East Monastery of Mār Aḥḥā the Egyptian in 1540.[7]
By the time of the Sayfo, 300 people inhabited the village according to Agha Petros, including 250 Syriac Orthodox Christians and some Chaldean Catholic families.[8] On 1 June 1915, the village was seized and most of its inhabitants were captured by Kurds belonging to the Esene, Mammi, and ‘Alikan tribes; 15 families were able to escape under the protection of the Kurdish sheikh ‘Abde from Batelle, who escorted them to Azekh.[9]
References
Notes
Citations
- 1 2 "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
 - ↑ Bcheiry (2019), p. 57.
 - 1 2 Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 328.
 - 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 111.
 - ↑ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
 - ↑ Baz (2016), pp. 107, 110.
 - ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 115.
 - ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 220.
 - ↑ Gaunt (2006), pp. 220, 392.
 
Bibliography
- Baz, Ibrahim (2016). Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü (in Turkish). ISBN 9786058849631.
 - Bcheiry, Iskandar (2019). "Digitizing and Schematizing the Archival Material from the Late Ottoman Period Found in the Monastery of al-Zaʿfarān in Southeast Turkey". Atla Summary of Proceedings. 72 (January): 50–61.
 - 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 (2012). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915. Brill.
 - Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers.
 
