Jilu
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 127 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5093-1165-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jilu was a district located in Hakkari region of upper Mesopotamia. Before 1915 Jilu was home to Christian Assyrians, as well as a minority of Kurds. There were 20 Assyrian villages in this district. The area was traditionally divided into Greater and Lesser Jilu, and Ishtazin - each with its own Malik, and consisting of a number of Assyrian villages. In the summer of 1915, during the Assyrian Genocide, Jilu was surrounded and attacked by Turkish troops and neighboring Kurdish tribes under the leadership of Agha Sutu of Oramar. After a brief struggle to maintain their positions, the Assyrian inhabitants of Jilu were forced to flee to Salmas in Iran along with other refugees from the Hakkari highlands. Today their descendants live all over the world including Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Russia, Georgia, the USA, Australia, Europe, Cuba, Uruguay, Chile and Brazil. In Syria's al-Hasakah Governorate there are two villages, Tell-Goran and...
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