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About Tepealtı
Tepealtı (Kurdish: Tel Yaqub; Syriac: Tel-Ya’qub) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Kasikan tribe and had a population of 699 in 2021. It is located on the slopes of Mount Izla.
From the Wikipedia article Tepealtı, Nusaybin (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Tel-Ya’qub (today called Tepealtı) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had nine households, who paid fifteen dues, and it did not have a church or a priest. It was populated by 300 Syriacs in 1914, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. There were ten Syriac families in 1915. Amidst the Sayfo, the Syriacs took refuge at Mharkan, where they were then killed. By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.
From the History section of Tepealtı, Nusaybin on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Tepealtı
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Getting there and nearby towns
Mardin Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar Airport (MQM) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 67 km away.
- Tepeüstü 2 km northeast, about 2 min by car
- Yolbilen 3 km west, about 3 min by car
- Duruca 5 km west, about 5 min by car
- Odabaşı 8 km east, about 8 min by car
- Hasantepe 11 km east, about 11 min by car
- Nusaybin 14 km west, about 14 min by car
- Midyat 36 km north, about 36 min by car
- Mardin 61 km northwest, about 1 h by car
- Kızıltepe 71 km west, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Cizre 77 km east, about 1 h 15 min by car
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