Taşdibek, Pervari

Pīrōz (today called Taşdibek) was historically inhabited by adherents of the Church of the East and Chaldean Catholics.^[8] Peter Mīkhā'īl Bartatar of Khosrowa, Chaldean Catholic metropolitan of Seert, died at the village in 1884.^[3] In the same year, Stephen Yōḥannān Qaynāyā, superior of the Monastery of Mār Ya‘qōb the Recluse, visited the village with the priest Paul al-Jādir of Seert and a detachment of Turkish soldiers to convince the villagers to return the body of Peter Mīkhā'īl Bartatar of Khosrowa for burial at Seert.^[9]

In 1913, it was populated by 300 Chaldean Catholics, who were served by the Church of Mart Shmūni and one priest as part of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Seert.^[10] According to Agha Petros's list, there were 62 households that belonged to the Church of the East as part of the district of Ispirad.^[11] Amidst the Sayfo, the village's inhabitants were killed in early June 1915 by the aghas of Aro and their bands.^[12] The Christian population endured until 1968, in which year they took refuge at Midyat until 1972, before moving to Istanbul for five years, and then on to France in 1980.^[13]

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