Alan, Şemdinli

Alan is a village in the Şemdinli District of Hakkâri Province in southeastern Turkey. The population of the village was 432 in 2023. It is populated by the Kurdish Zerzan tribe who have close links to their counterparts in Iran.
The hamlet of Cevizpınar is attached to the village.

History

Hālānā was inhabited by 100 Church of the East Christian families in 1877 when visited by Edward Lewes Cutts and was served by two functioning churches as part of the archdiocese of Shemsdin. It was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in 1915 amidst the Sayfo.

Geography

The Fritillaria imperialis plant grows in the village.

Population

Population history from 2007 to 2023: