Madenköy, Şirvan
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Madenköy | |
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  Madenköy Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 38°05′28″N 42°09′11″E / 38.091°N 42.153°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Siirt |
| District | Şirvan |
| Population (2021)[1] | 778 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Madenköy (Arabic: المعدن;[2] Kurdish: Madan; Syriac: ܡܥܕܢ, romanized: Maʿdan)[2][a] is a village in the Şirvan District of Siirt Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Sturkiyan tribe and had a population of 778 in 2021.[1][6]
Maʿdan (today called Madenköy) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[7] The Maphrian Basilius Barsoum II (r. 1422–1454) was from Maʿdan.[8] Patriarch Ignatius David I (r. 1519–1521) was from Ma‘dan.[9] The monk Ibrahim of Ma’dan is attested at the Monastery of Mar Malke in 1560.[10] There was a community of adherents of the Church of the East.[11] It is alternatively named as an Armenian village.[12] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 29 households, who paid 290 dues, and it had one priest.[7] There was a church of Yūldaṯ Alohō and a monastery of Morī Gewargīs.[7]
In a letter from Priest Ibrahim to Patriarch Ignatius Abdul Masih II, it is recorded that the village was attacked by about 100 men of the Danabkta kochers led by two sons of the chief of the tribe, Mijdad Agha, on 15 October 1895, amidst the Hamidian massacres, resulting in the death of the priest, 10 men, and 4 women.[13] Alternatively, Demli Kurds plundered and burned the village and killed 20 villagers, according to James Henry Monahan, the British Vice-Consul of Bitlis.[12] By 1898, there were 20 Syriac Orthodox families, of whom 10 migrated to Bitlis, whilst those who remained stayed in houses that had been rebuilt by the authorities.[14]
