Sati, Sur

Sati
Neighbourhood
Sati is located in Turkey
Sati
Sati
Location within Turkey
Coordinates: 37°51′39″N 40°21′29″E / 37.86074°N 40.3581°E / 37.86074; 40.3581
CountryTurkey
ProvinceDiyarbakır
DistrictSur
Population
 (2025)
1,122
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Sati (Kurdish: Satya; Syriac: Saṭiyah) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Sur, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 1,122 in 2025.

History

Saṭiyah (today called Sati) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Armenians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 6 households, who did not pay any dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were 82 Armenian hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church of Surb Tukhmanuk. By 1895, the total population was about 300. On 1 November 1895, the village was attacked and plundered during the massacres in the Diyarbekir vilayet by Kurds who murdered the men and children and seized the women and girls. The Christians attempted to take refuge in the church, but it was set on fire by the Kurds after they had climbed atop its roof and drilled a hole through which they threw hay and poured crude oil that was then set alight. The Kurds then slaughtered the Christians as they attempted to flee the church; only three people survived.

The village was located in the Diyarbakır central district (merkez kaza) in the Diyarbakır sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in c. 1900. In 1914, it was populated by 350 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. Amidst the Sayfo, in 1915, the villagers were killed by militia on the orders of the kaymakam of Al-Madine and the priest was tortured and killed.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Sa’diye, Sa‘diyye, Satié, Satia, Satı, Satıköy, Sati-Keuï, Sati-Koy, Satu-Koy, or Satou-Keuï.
  2. ↑ Gaunt erroneously places the attack on 1 October 1895.

Citations

  1. 1 2 Tîgrîs & Çakar (2012), p. 301.
  2. 1 2 3 Bcheiry (2009), p. 67.
  3. ↑ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 308; Kévorkian (2006), p. 267; Abed Mshiho Neman of Qarabash (2021), pp. 44, 48.
  4. ↑ Mahalle Archived 6 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  6. 1 2 Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 308.
  7. ↑ Kévorkian (2006), p. 267.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Abed Mshiho Neman of Qarabash (2021), p. 44.
  9. ↑ Jongerden & Verheij (2012), p. 334; Gaunt (2006), p. 250.
  10. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 422.
  11. ↑ Abed Mshiho Neman of Qarabash (2021), p. 114; Gaunt (2006), p. 250.

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