Deveboynu, Beşiri
Village in Batman Province, Turkey
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Deveboynu (Kurdish: Gedûkê; Syriac: Gīdūk)[2][a] is a village in the Beşiri District of Batman Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Reman tribe and had a population of 124 in 2021.[1][5] The village is Yazidi.[6]
History
Gīdūk (today called Deveboynu) 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 10 households, who paid 18 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[2] There were 8 Armenian hearths in 1880.[8] There was an Armenian church of Surb Tovmas.[8]
It was populated by 250 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[9] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.[10]