Tepealtı, Nusaybin

Tel-Ya’qub (today called Tepealtı) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[6] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had nine households, who paid fifteen dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.^[7] It was populated by 300 Syriacs in 1914, 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.^[2] By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.^[9]

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