Yediyol, Batman

Helqāmiyyah (today called Yediyol) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians.^[6] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 1 household, who paid 5 dues, and did not have a priest.^[2] There was a Syriac Orthodox church of Morī Eliyyō.^[2] In 1914, it was populated by 300 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[7] It was located in the kaza (district) of Beşiri.^[7] The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.^[8]

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