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About Boyunlu
Boyunlu (Kurdish: Boşat; Syriac: Bōshat) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 1,187 in 2022.
From the Wikipedia article Boyunlu, Silvan (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Bōshat (today called Boyunlu) was historically inhabited by Chaldean Catholics and Kurdish-speaking Armenians. A Parthian-style rock relief of a horseman at the village has been dated to the end of the second century or beginning of the third century AD. The castle at Bōshat is first mentioned in the tenth century, but was likely built before then. A ziyarat in the village is said to have been built in the 13th century.
There were twenty Armenian hearths in 1880. The Chaldean Catholic community in the village is first attested in 1896 by Jean-Baptiste Chabot. By June 1913, there were 500 recently converted Chaldean Catholics at Bōshat who were served by one priest without a church as part of the archdiocese of Amida. The Armenians were killed by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.
From the History section of Boyunlu, Silvan on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Batman Airport (BAL) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 34 km away.
- Keklikdere 4 km west, about 4 min by car
- Altınkum 8 km northeast, about 8 min by car
- Silvan 10 km south, about 10 min by car
- Gürpınar 9 km east, about 9 min by car
- Kumgölü 12 km east, about 12 min by car
- Kazandağı 13 km east, about 13 min by car
- Batman 40 km south, about 40 min by car
- Muş 71 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Diyarbakır 76 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Bingöl 85 km northwest, about 1 h 30 min by car
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