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About Yeniköy
Batman (Kurdish: Êlih; Syriac: Elīḥā) is a city and capital of Batman District in Batman Province, Turkey. It lies on a plateau, 540 meters (1,772 feet) above sea level, near the confluence of the Batman River and the Tigris and had a population of 452,157 in 2021. It is populated by Kurds and considered to be part of Turkish Kurdistan.
From the Wikipedia article Batman, Turkey (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Elīḥā (today called Batman) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 1 household, who paid 10 dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were 15 Armenian hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church of Surb Astvatsatsin. It was located in the kaza (district) of Beşiri in the Diyarbakır sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in c. 1900. It is tentatively identified with the village of Yliga, which was populated by 100 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.
The village became the capital of a sub-neighbourhood in 1937. It was renamed Batman in 1957 and made a neighbourhood of Siirt Province. It became part of Batman Province upon its formation in 1990. More than 180 civilians were killed in the Batman city area by unidentified gunmen between 1992 and 1993.
From the History section of Batman, Turkey on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Yeniköy
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Getting there and nearby towns
14. İnsansız Uçak Sistemleri Üs Komutanlığı Askeri Havaalanı (BAL) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 8 km away.
- Balpınar 1 km south, about 1 min by car
- İkiztepe 3 km northeast, about 3 min by car
- Diktepe 4 km north, about 4 min by car
- Sinanköy 5 km southwest, about 5 min by car
- Batman 7 km east, about 7 min by car
- Midyat 57 km southeast, about 57 min by car
- Mardin 69 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Diyarbakır 73 km west, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Siirt 78 km east, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Kızıltepe 88 km southwest, about 1 h 30 min by car
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