Taşköy, Nusaybin

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Taşköy ( Turkish for stone village, Aramaic Arbo ) is an Aramaic village in the district of Nusaybin Mardin province in southeastern Turkey today in the mountain Tur Abdin. The Syrians are members of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch.

• 2.1 Churches and monasteries

Geography

Location

Arbo is located 30 km south-east of Midyat and about 6 km from the Mor Gabriel monastery.

Climate

The seasons are very pronounced. There are plenty of rainfall in spring and autumn, hot and dry summers, cold and snowy winter. Temperatures range from -10 ° C in winter to 50 ° C in summer.

Population

Arbo was temporarily without population. Although by 1980, 30 families lived here, migrated in 1989, the last inhabitants of: the family of the mayor.

Only in recent years, reconstruction efforts on the part of the former inhabitants and the subsequent generation (organized in a club Arbo ) was initiated because the law and the law has improved. So currently 7 homes have been rebuilt and are regularly inhabited and partially used for the holiday by most people living in the Diaspora Arameans as a summer residence. The population fluctuates in this regard and will be able to stabilize depending on the political situation in Turkey only for the foreseeable future.

Culture, religion and sights

Churches and monasteries

In the Church of Mar Dimet are several patriarchs and bishops graves. Several church ruins ( Mar Schallita, Joldath Aloho, Mar Eschajo and Mar Schimmuni ), and the remains of the monastery of Mar Schimun near Arbo testify to the former importance of the small village.