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About Ortaköy
Ortaköy (Kurdish: Oriş; Syriac: Ārōsh) is a village in the Uludere District in Şırnak province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kaşuran tribe and had a population of 907 in 2023.
From the Wikipedia article Ortaköy, Uludere (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Ārōsh (today called Ortaköy) was historically inhabited by Assyrian people and located in the Lower Tyari district in the Hakkari region. According to the English missionary George Percy Badger, the village was inhabited by 17 Assyrian families in 1850, all of whom belonged to the Church of the East; this grew to 20 families in 1877 when visited by Edward Lewes Cutts, by which time a church had also been built. Ārōsh was served as part of the diocese of the Patriarch of the Church of the East. The village was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in June 1915 amidst the Sayfo.
From the History section of Ortaköy, Uludere on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Hakkari Yüksekova Airport (YKO) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 88 km away.
- Çığlı 8 km east, about 8 min by car
- Oymakaya 11 km north, about 11 min by car
- Gündeş 15 km east, about 15 min by car
- Dağdibi 17 km northwest, about 17 min by car
- Yemişli 18 km west, about 18 min by car
- Taşbaşı 18 km northeast, about 18 min by car
- Basaran 21 km northwest, about 21 min by car
- Ayvalık 23 km northwest, about 23 min by car
- Hakkâri 49 km northeast, about 49 min by car
- Silopi 73 km west, about 1 h 15 min by car
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- OrtaköyGeramon, Meganesia, CC BY-SA 4.0
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