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Özbek, İdil

Coordinates: 37°10′37″N 41°41′35″E / 37.177°N 41.693°E / 37.177; 41.693
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Özbek
Özbek is located in Turkey
Özbek
Özbek
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°10′37″N 41°41′35″E / 37.177°N 41.693°E / 37.177; 41.693
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
Districtİdil
Population
 (2021)[1]
825
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Özbek (Kurdish: Tilseqan,[2] Syriac: Tel-Sefan)[nb 1] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 825 in 2021.[1][2]

The hamlet of Tuğlu is attached to Özbek.[4]

History

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Tel-Sefan (today called Özbek) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Assyrians.[3] In 1914, the village was populated by 300 Assyrians, according to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.[5]

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Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively transliterated as Telsakam, Telsekan, or Telsakan.[3]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b Tan (2018), p. 165.
  3. ^ a b Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 325.
  4. ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  5. ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 425.

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