Yoncalık, Yüksekova

Village in Hakkari Province, Turkey

Village in Hakkâri, Turkey

37°31′05″N 44°17′42″E / 37.518°N 44.295°E / 37.518; 44.295CountryTurkeyProvinceHakkâriDistrictYüksekovaPopulation

(2023)^[1]

432Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Yoncalık (Kurdish: Pîrzalan,^[2] Syriac: Pirzālan^[3]) is a village in the Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province in Turkey.^[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Dirî and Pinyanişî tribes and had a population of 432 in 2023.^[1]^[5]

The hamlet of Çakırca, Çevreli (Çardîwar, Qardiwār) and Kuruköy are attached to Yoncalık.^[2]^[4]

History

Missionary Samuel Audley Rhea visited the village during his trips to Kurdistan which Dwight Whitney Marsh wrote about in the book "The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan" published in 1869.^[6]

The village was populated by 28 Assyrian families in 1850 and 60 families in 1877.^[3]

Population history

Population history from 2007 to 2023:^[1]

Population
Year	Pop.	±%
2007	924	—
2010	980	+6.1%
2015	462	−52.9%
2020	461	−0.2%
2023	432	−6.3%

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Yüksekova köylerinin Kürtçe, Türkçe ve Eski isimleri" (in Turkish). 27 January 2021. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913. Peeters Publishers. p. 302.
^ ^a ^b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^ Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 218.
^ Marsh, Dwight Whitney (1869). The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan: Being Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Samuel Audley Rhea. Presbyterian Board of Publication. pp. 105, 163 and 167.