Kavallı, Silopi

Nahrawān (today called Kavallı) was historically inhabited by adherents of the Church of the East and Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[7] In 1567, a manuscript was copied at the village by the scribe Hormizd, son of 'Abd Allah, of Karamlesh.^[8] Nahrawān is identified with Narman, of which a bishop belonging to the Church of the East named Joseph is attested in 1607.^[9] Adherents of the Church of the East in the village converted to the Chaldean Catholic Church in the second half of the 19th century.^[10]

In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 10 households, who paid 42 households, and did not have a church or a priest.^[11] The Chaldean Catholic priest Joseph Tfinkdji noted Nahrawān was populated by 120 Chaldean Catholics in 1913 as part of the Chaldean Catholic diocese of Gazarta who did not have a church or a priest.^[12] It was located in the kaza of Jazirat Ibn ʿUmar.^[13] In 1914, there were 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[13] Amidst the Sayfo, the village was attacked by the Bohtan Kurds.^[14]

Population history from 2007 to 2023:^[1]