Öğündük, İdil

Öğündük (Arabic: مدو; Kurdish: Midin; Syriac: ܡܝܕܘܢ, romanized: Midun)[2][nb 1] is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Assyrians and Kurds and had a population of 367 in 2021.[1][6]

Öğündük
Village
Village
Village
Öğündük is located in Turkey
Öğündük
Öğündük
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.338°N 41.746°E / 37.338; 41.746
CountryTurkey
ProvinceŞırnak
Districtİdil
Population
 (2021)[1]
367
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)

It was historically an Assyrian village with the presence of thirty-one different clans. Kurds of the Domanan tribe later settled in the village and the Assyrians went under the patronage of the tribe. In present time, a large majority of the Assyrian population has left the village and some Assyrian families consider themselves part of the Domanan tribe.[7]

History
Mor Sobo church

Midun (today called Öğündük) was probably named after the nearby Roman border fort of Mindon by the border with the Sasanian Empire in the Melabas Hills of Tur Abdin.[8][nb 2] The efforts of the Roman general Belisarius to construct the fort in 528 prompted a battle in which the Romans were defeated as per Procopius' History of the Wars.[9]

The village was attacked by Bakhtis in 1453 and again in 1457; in the second attack, many of its inhabitants, including the priests Behnam and Malke, were killed, according to the account of the priest Addai of Basibrina in c. 1500.[10] Midun was later looted by the emir Bidayn in 1714 and the Kurdish rebel Yezdanşêr in 1855.[11]

A section of the village called Sanhatkar was settled by Armenians who had fled from Palu due to the Hamidian massacres.[12] It was visited by the English traveller Mark Sykes in the early 20th century.[13]

A significant number of the village's Assyrian population emigrated abroad to Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium in the late 20th century.[14] In 1999, Öğündük was inhabited by 50 Assyrian families.[14] In 2007, 257 Assyrians in 50 families inhabited Öğündük.[14]

References

Notes

  1. Alternatively transliterated as Midin, Midih, Medih, Miden, Meddé, Meddo, and Medon.[3][4]
  2. Alternatively transliterated as Mindouos, Minduos, and Mindonos.[9]

Citations

  1. "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. Carlson, Thomas A. (9 December 2016). "Midun — ܡܝܕܘܢ". The Syriac Gazetteer. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  3. Barsoum 2003, p. 559; Barsoum 2008, p. 133.
  4. Jongerden & Verheij (2012), pp. 246, 323.
  5. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. Tan (2018), p. 159.
  7. Baz 2016, p. 473; Tan 2018, p. 159.
  8. Palmer (1990), p. 5.
  9. Lillington-Martin (2012), pp. 4–5.
  10. Barsoum (2008), pp. 70–71.
  11. Barsoum (2008), pp. 131, 133.
  12. Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 249.
  13. Sykes (1915), pp. 355–356.
  14. Courtois (2013), p. 147.

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