Karapınar, Bismil

Karapınar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bismil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Barava tribe and had a population of 31 in 2022.

History

Kara-Pouar was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. It was located in the kaza of Silvan in the Diyarbekir sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in. The Chaldean Catholic priest Joseph Tfinkdji noted the village was also populated by Catholics in 1914. In 1914, it was populated by 100 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. By 1914, it was situated in the Bafaya nahiyah of the kaza of Beşiri. No survivors of the Sayfo are attested from this area.