Doğançay, Mardin

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Doğançay ( Syro -Aramaic ܡ ܨ ܝ ܨ ܚ Mizizah, also Mzizah, Kurdish Mizîzex ) is a village in the district of Midyat in Mardin province in southeastern Turkey in the mountain Tur Abdin. The place had 2011 180 inhabitants in the year and is inhabited by Syrians and Kurds.

• 5.1 Famous residents

Location

Doğançay lies about 9 km south-east of Midyat and about 18 km from the Mor Gabriel Monastery, north of the newly constructed road from Mardin to Cizre in the central Tur Abdin. Doğançay is located in the center of a plateau with a radius of 2 km and is surrounded by fertile farmland. The main road to the village takes you past a pond, from which, with its castle and built in the 6th century church of Mor Yuhanun you can see the elongated spot in front of him.

Population

The first inhabitants of Mizizah came early 19th century Iwardo and then from other Aramaic villages, including from Bashoq / Beth- Ishok, Kafarbe, Urnus / Arnas, Iwardo, Rowen and Zaz. Today ( 2008) live only 6 Aramaic families in this village. Part of the abandoned houses used today by the 30 Kurdish families as a storage warehouse, but but most of the houses are vacant and dilapidated part. From the former Aramaic population now live 30 339 families in Syria, in Germany, 30 in the Netherlands, 124 in Sweden, one in Belgium and four in Istanbul.

Economy and infrastructure

The population lives mainly from agriculture and animal husbandry, agriculture is mainly operated for self catering. It is also grown wine.

History

Genocide in 1915

In the year 1915 there were about seventy of the sword Aramaic and fifty Kurdish families in the village. A lot of it fled when the massacre began on the Christians, after Aynwardo where they survived a more than 50 - day siege. When they returned after the armistice following, several of them were killed on the way home. Some fled to Syria, many later emigrated to Europe.

Churches and religion

In Mizizah built in the sixth century St. John is only obtained from Kfone church. It is located in the center of the village. Of the other churches, Mor Bar Mor Saumo and Shem'un, only ruins are still visible.

St. John of Kfone, which the church is dedicated, was born in Athens. He was a disciple of St. Mar Augin the end of the fourth to the beginning of the fifth century as an ambassador of the Gospel throughout the Tur Abdin. According to legend, he was in the village Kfone ( Turkish Derikvan ) buried near Zaz.

There is still a church school with about 20 pupils, it is supervised by a altar boy named Murat Aydin cash Isa.

Famous residents

Mor Cyril Yausef Mizahoyo, son of Nison, was bishop of the Diocese of Hah in Tur Abdin to him the 91st Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Mor Behnam Hedloyo ​​( 1413-1455 ) in 1446 as Archbishop of the Diocese of Phoenicia (now Lebanon ) inaugurated. The highlight of his career to was in 1467 consecrated Catholicos ( Aramaic Maphiryono ) of the Diocese of the East ( present-day Iran, Iraq ) by the 92 patriarchs Chalaf Macednoyo ( 1456-1484 ). He then became known as Cyril. He later settled in the diocese of Homs in Syria, where he is buried.