Kocalar, Batman
Village in Batman Province, Turkey
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Kocalar (Kurdish: Qoca; Syriac: Qūğā)[2][a] is a village in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey.[4] The village had a population of 1,014 in 2021.[1]
History
Qūğā (today called Kocalar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians.[5] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 5 households, who paid 16 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[2] There were 50 Armenian hearths in 1880.[6] There was an Armenian church of Surb Nshan.[6]
It was populated by 50 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] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.[9]