Seki, Gercüş
Village in Batman Province, Turkey
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Seki (Kurdish: Xerabê Bena; Syriac: Ḫarābā Bannā)[2][a] is a village in the Gercüş District of Batman Province in Turkey.[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Bêcirmanî tribe and had a population of 341 in 2021.[1][5] It is located in the historic region of Tur Abdin.[6]
History
Ḫarābā Bannā (today called Seki) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[2] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 10 households, who paid 27 dues, and did not have a church or a priest.[2]