Yünlüce, Lice

Mlaḥso (today called Yünlüce) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[8] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 34 households, who paid 79 dues, and was served by the Church of Mortī Šmūnī and two priests.^[9] Outside of the village there were churches of Mar Tuma, Mar Eliyo, and Nǎbi Yawnan.^[10] In 1914, it was populated by 800 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[11] It had 200–300 Christian families, including Armenians and Syriacs, all of whom spoke the Mlaḥsô language.^[12] The village was destroyed and almost all of the villagers were killed by Muslim Kurds from the neighbouring villages amidst the Sayfo.^[13] The name of the village was consequently Turkified to Yünlüce.^[10]

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