İzbırak, Midyat

İzbırak (Syriac: Zaz) is a village in the Midyat district of Mardin Province, Turkey and is about 20 kilometers north of Midyat. The village was traditionally Assyrian, but due to the combined factors of the Assyrian Genocide of WW1 and the area becoming a warzone in the Turkey-PKK conflict, their numbers are very diminished. There are only 3 Assyrian families still living in the mostly abandoned town, and the foundations of abandoned and ruined houses are visible, as with many other villages in Tur Abdin.

Description

The village is surrounded by grape gardens and fruit trees, and in the middle of the village lies a pond (Raumo). In the upper half of the village on a hill is the Church of Mor Dimet, boasting an imposing castle like structure. Several houses are clustered around the church, most of them intact. In the middle half of the village is Mar Shmuni, as well as Mar Gabriel in the lower half. Throughout the lower and middle half of the village ruins and foundations of abandoned houses are dispersed across the landscape, with a few intact ones scattered around.

İzbırak, Midyat in Mardin Province of Turkey

Districts

List of Provinces by Region

Istanbul	Istanbul

West Marmara	Balıkesir Çanakkale Edirne Kırklareli Tekirdağ

Aegean	Afyonkarahisar Aydın Denizli İzmir Kütahya Manisa Muğla Uşak

East Marmara	Bilecik Bolu Bursa Düzce Eskişehir Kocaeli Sakarya Yalova

West Anatolia	Ankara Karaman Konya

Mediterranean	Adana Antalya Burdur Hatay Isparta Kahramanmaraş Mersin Osmaniye

Central Anatolia	Aksaray Kayseri Kırıkkale Kırşehir Nevşehir Niğde Sivas Yozgat

West Black Sea	Amasya Bartın Çankırı Çorum Karabük Kastamonu Samsun Sinop Tokat Zonguldak

East Black Sea	Artvin Giresun Gümüşhane Ordu Rize Trabzon

Northeast Anatolia	Ağrı Ardahan Bayburt Erzincan Erzurum Iğdır Kars

Central East Anatolia	Bingöl Bitlis Elazığ Hakkâri Malatya Muş Tunceli Van

Southeast Anatolia	Adıyaman Batman Diyarbakır Gaziantep Kilis Mardin Siirt Şanlıurfa Şırnak

Metropolitan municipalities are bolded.

Coordinates: 37°31′N 41°32′E / 37.517°N 41.533°E / 37.517; 41.533

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