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About Özbek
Özbek (Kurdish: Tilseqan; Syriac: Tal-Seqān) is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 825 in 2021.
From the Wikipedia article Özbek, İdil (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Tal-Seqān (today called Özbek) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 6 households, who paid 13 dues, and it did not have a church or a priest. In 1914, the village was populated by 300 Syriacs, according to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference.
From the History section of Özbek, İdil on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Özbek
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Getting there and nearby towns
Şırnak Şerafettin Elçi Airport (NKT) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 39 km away.
- Çığır 5 km southeast, about 5 min by car
- Aksoy 5 km north, about 5 min by car
- Oyalı 6 km northeast, about 6 min by car
- Uğrak 7 km east, about 7 min by car
- Midyat 41 km northwest, about 41 min by car
- Nusaybin 44 km west, about 44 min by car
- Cizre 47 km east, about 47 min by car
- Silopi 69 km east, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Mardin 85 km west, about 1 h 30 min by car
- Siirt 86 km north, about 1 h 30 min by car
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