Tepeüstü, Nusaybin
Village in Mardin Province, Turkey
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Tepeüstü[a] (Kurdish: Tilminar; Syriac: Tel-Manar)[3][b] is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province in Turkey.[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Kasikan tribe and had a population of 1,269 in 2021.[1][6]
History
Tel-Manar (today called Tepeüstü) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.[7] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had eleven households, who paid thirty dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.[2] In 1914, it was populated by 150 Syriacs, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.[8] There were ten Syriac families in 1915.[9] Amidst the Sayfo, the Syriacs took refuge at Mharkan, where they were then killed by Yusuf Hajo.[3] By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.[9]