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About Gözpınar
Gözpınar (Kurdish: Hishis; Syriac: Ḥesḥes) is a village in the Kurtalan District of Siirt Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Pencenarî tribe and had a population of 1,638 in 2021. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).
From the Wikipedia article Gözpınar, Kurtalan (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Ḥesḥes (today called Gözpınar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 14 households, who paid 73 dues, and had one priest. There was a Syriac Orthodox church of Morī Isḥaq. Kawriyeh, son of Maqdesī Afrem, was ordained as diyāqūs (servant of the church) for Ḥesḥes by Metropolitan Ilyās on 20 October 1326 AH (1908 AD).
From the History section of Gözpınar, Kurtalan 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, 30 km away.
- Bozhüyük 4 km west, about 4 min by car
- Saipbeyli 5 km northeast, about 5 min by car
- Gökdoğan 5 km southwest, about 5 min by car
- Batman 30 km west, about 30 min by car
- Hasankeyf 30 km south, about 30 min by car
- Siirt 43 km east, about 43 min by car
- Midyat 63 km south, about 1 h by car
- Bitlis 74 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Muş 84 km north, about 1 h 30 min by car
- Hizan 88 km east, about 1 h 30 min by car
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