Akça, Batman
Village in Batman Province, Turkey
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Akça (Kurdish: Tilmiz; Syriac: Talmis)[2][a] is a village in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Receban tribe and had a population of 506 in 2021.[1][5]
History
Talmis (today called Akça) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Armenians.[6] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 2 households, who paid 10 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[2] It is tentatively identified with the village of Talmassas, which was populated by 150 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[7] It was located in the kaza (district) of Beşiri.[8]