Girmeli, Nusaybin
Girmeli is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province, Turkey. The population was 3,247 in 2022. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. The village is populated by Syriacs and by Kurds of the Mizizex and Omerkan tribes.
History
In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that Gırēmīrā had 8 households, who paid 48 dues, and it did not have a church or a priest. It was inhabited by 400 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. In 1915, there were 70 Syriac families and 10 Kurdish families. The Syriacs adhered to the Syriac Orthodox Church. Amidst the Sayfo, the Syriacs took refuge elsewhere. The village had a population of 571 in 1960. There were 225 Turoyo-speaking Christians in 34 families in 1966. By 1987, there were 7 Syriac families.
Demography
The following is a list of the number of Syriac families that have inhabited Gırēmīrā per year stated. Unless otherwise stated, all figures are from the list provided in The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond: Crisis then Revival, as noted in the bibliography below.
- 1915: 70
- 1966: 34
- 1978: 32
- 1979: 29
- 1981: 25
- 1987: 7