Balpınar, Batman
Town in Batman Province, Turkey
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Balpınar (Kurdish: Gîrêsira;[2] Syriac: Grīsīrā)[3][a] is a town (belde) in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey.[5] The town is populated by Kurds of the Reman tribe and had a population of 5,685 in 2021.[1][6]
The town is divided into the neighbourhoods of Segirkan, Seyrantepe, Yeniköy and Yenimahalle.[5]
History
Grīsīrā (today called Balpınar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians.[7] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had one household, who paid eight dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[3] There were seven Armenian hearths in 1880.[8] There was an Armenian church of Surb Errordutiun.[8] In 1914, the village was populated by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[9] It was located in the kaza of Beşiri.[9] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.[10]