Çitlibahçe, Hazro

Çitlibahçe is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Hazro, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 368 in 2022. It is located atop the Mountain of Takh.

History

Ḥelḥel was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Armenians. One deacon was consecrated for the Syriac Orthodox Church of Morī Māmā at Ḥelḥel on the Sunday after the Feast of the Ascension in AD 1590. An Order of Ordinations was compiled at the Church of Morī Māmā by Basilius ‘Abd al-Ahad, bishop of Zarjal, in 1705. The village belonged to the Syriac Orthodox diocese of Hattack.
In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had sixteen households, who paid twenty-eight dues, and did not have a priest. There were eight Armenian hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church of Surb Gevorg. In 1914, there were 200 Syriacs at Ḥelḥel, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza of Lice.