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{{Short description|Village in Şırnak Province, Turkey}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox Turkey place|name=Kavallı|type=village|coordinates={{Coord|37.210|42.419|display=inline,title}}|province=Şırnak|district=Silopi|population_as_of=2023|population_total=1670|population_footnotes=<ref name=tuik/>}}
'''Kavallı''' ({{Langx|ku|Nêrwan}},{{sfnp|Baz|2016|p=81}} {{langx|syr|Nahrawān}}){{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=100}}{{refn|Alternatively transliterated as Nehrivan, Nuhervan, Nahravan, or Nahrwan.{{sfnmp|1a1=Gaunt|1y=2006|1p=241|2a1=Jongerden|2a2=Verheij|2y=2012|2p=328}}|group=nb}} is a village in the [[Silopi District]] of [[Şırnak Province]] in [[Turkey]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri |url=https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx |access-date=19 December 2022 |website=T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı |language=tr}}</ref> The village is populated by [[Kurds]] of the [[Kurdish tribes|Tayan tribe]] and had a population of 1,670 in 2023.<ref name=tuik/>{{sfnp|Baz|2016|p=81}}
==History==
Nahrawān (today called Kavallı) was historically inhabited by [[Chaldean Catholic Church|Chaldean Catholic]] [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]].{{sfnp|Jongerden|Verheij|2012|p=328}} In 1567, a manuscript was copied at the village by the scribe Hormizd, son of 'Abd Allah, of [[Karamlesh]].{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=120}} Nahrawān is identified with Narman, of which a bishop belonging to the [[Church of the East]] named Joseph is attested in 1607.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|pp=100, 111}} The village's population adhered to the Church of the East until they converted to the Chaldean Catholic Church in the second half of the 19th century.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=112}}
The Chaldean Catholic priest Joseph Tfinkdji noted Nahrawān was populated by 120 Chaldean Catholics in 1913 as part of the [[Gazarta (Chaldean diocese)|Chaldean Catholic diocese of Gazarta]] whilst the list presented to the [[Paris Peace Conference]] by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation gave the village's population as 200 in 1914.{{sfnmp|Wilmshurst|2000|1p=107|Gaunt|2006|2p=426}} Amidst the [[Sayfo]], the village was attacked by the [[Bohtan]] Kurds.{{sfnp|Gaunt|2006|p=241}}
==Population==
Population history from 2007 to 2023:<ref name=tuik>{{cite web|url=https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/medas/?kn=95&locale=en |title=Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters|publisher=[[Turkish Statistical Institute|TÜİK]] |access-date=10 May 2024}}</ref>
{{Historical populations|2007|985|2010|1115|2015|1435|2020|1661|2023|1670|title=Population|align=none}}
==References==
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'''Citations'''
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==Bibliography==
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*{{Cite book |last=Baz |first=Ibrahim |title=Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü |year=2016 |isbn=9786058849631 |language=tr}}
*{{cite book | last1 =Gaunt| first1 =David |date=2006|title=Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I|publisher=Gorgias Press|url=https://archive.org/details/massacres-resistance-protectors-muslim-christian-relations-in-eastern-anatolia-d|access-date=21 May 2023}}
*{{cite book | last1 =Jongerden| first1 =Joost|last2 =Verheij| first2 =Jelle |date=2012|title=Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915|publisher=Brill}}
*{{cite book | last1 =Wilmshurst| first1 =David|date=2000|title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913|publisher=Peeters Publishers}}
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{{Silopi District}}
[[Category:Villages in Silopi District]]
[[Category:Kurdish settlements in Şırnak Province]]
[[Category:Historic Assyrian communities in Turkey]]
[[Category:Places of the Assyrian genocide]]