Karagöl, Mardin

Karagöl (Syriac: ܕܝܪ ܩܘܒܐ‎ Deyrqube) is an Assyrian/Syriac village in the Alagöz district of Mardin Province, Turkey. It is located 10 kilometers directly east of the district center in Alagoz. The village is populated by ethnic Assyrians/Syriacs, Aramaic speaking Christians.

For other uses, see Karagöl (disambiguation).

The local church of Mor Jahkub was built in the 5th century as a monastery but this was destroyed in the 15th century by Tamerlane and rebuilt as a church.


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