Gercüş

Gercüş
Gercüş
	Gercüş
	Coordinates: 37°33′59″N 41°23′04″E / 37.56639°N 41.38444°ECoordinates: 37°33′59″N 41°23′04″E / 37.56639°N 41.38444°E
Country	Turkey
Province	Batman
Government
• Mayor	Abdulkerim Kaya (BDP)
• Kaymakam	Tarkan Keskin
Area
• District	826.04 km2 (318.94 sq mi)
Population (2012)
• Urban	4,725
• District	22,183
• District density	27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Website	www.gercus.bel.tr

Gercüş (Kurdish: Kercews/Kercoz,^[3]^[4] Syriac: "ܟܦܪ ܓܘ̈ܙܐ" "Kfar Gawze"^[5] or "ܟܦܪ ܓܘܣܢ" "Kfar Gawson") is a town and district of Batman Province in Turkey. The mayor is Abdulkerim Kaya (BDP).

The town of Gercus is said to be built by a wealthy Roman soldier named "Gawson" who named the village after him.^[6]

History[]

The town was formerly populated by Assyrians but mainly Kurds from the Kercoz tribe live in the town today.^[7]

References[]

^ "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
^ "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
^ Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
^ Tan, Altan (2011). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye & Aşiretler (in Turkish). Nubihar. p. 110.
^ Talmon, Daniella (1996). Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East. p. 81. ISBN 978-90-04-27159-3.
^ N.Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur `Abdin. Press syndicate of Cambridge university. p. 54. ISBN 9780521360265.
^ Tan, Altan (2011). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye & Aşiretler (in Turkish). Nubihar. p. 172.

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[distr-area-1] "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.

[population-2] "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.

[3] Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56. Retrieved 17 December 2019.

[4] Tan, Altan (2011). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye & Aşiretler (in Turkish). Nubihar. p. 110.

[5] Talmon, Daniella (1996). Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East. p. 81. ISBN 978-90-04-27159-3.

[6] N.Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur `Abdin. Press syndicate of Cambridge university. p. 54. ISBN 9780521360265.

[7] Tan, Altan (2011). Turabidin'den Berriye'ye & Aşiretler (in Turkish). Nubihar. p. 172.

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