Yoncalık, Yüksekova

Yoncalık (Syriac: Pirzālan, Kurdish: Pîrzalan) is a village in the Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province in Turkey.[2] The village is populated by Kurds of the Dirî and Pinyanişî tribes and had a population of 450 in 2021.[1][3]

Yoncalık
Village
Yoncalık is located in Turkey
Yoncalık
Yoncalık
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.518°N 44.295°E / 37.518; 44.295
CountryTurkey
ProvinceHakkâri
DistrictYüksekova
Population
 (2021)[1]
450
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)

The hamlet of Çakırca, Çevreli (Çardîwar, Qardiwār) and Kuruköy are attached to Yoncalık.[4]

History

Missionary Samuel Audley Rhea visited the village during his trips to Kurdistan which Dwight Whitney Marsh wrote about in the book "The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan" published in 1869.[5]

The village was populated by 28 Assyrian families in 1850 and 60 families in 1877.[6]

References
  1. "31 ARALIK 2021 TARİHLİ ADRESE DAYALI NÜFUS KAYIT SİSTEMİ (ADNKS) SONUÇLARI" (XLS). TÜİK (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  3. Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 218.
  4. "Yüksekova köylerinin Kürtçe, Türkçe ve Eski isimleri". Yüksekova Haber (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  5. Marsh, Dwight Whitney (1869). The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan: Being Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Samuel Audley Rhea. Presbyterian Board of Publication. pp. 105, 163 and 167.
  6. Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers. p. 302.
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