Çevrimova, Batman

Çevrimova is a village in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Elîkan, Reman and Sinikan tribes and had a population of 1,056 in 2021.

History

Bāreṣel 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 14 households, who paid 47 dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were 15 Armenian hearths in 1880.
It was populated by 120 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza of Beşiri. The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.