Tillo

Tillo
Tillo
	İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi shrine in Tillo, Siirt
	Tillo
	Coordinates: 37°57′03″N 42°00′48″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Siirt
Government
• Mayor	Mehmet Mesut Memduhoğlu (AKP)
• Kaymakam	Mehmet Şirin Yaşar
Area [1]
• District	69.20 km2 (26.72 sq mi)
Population (2012)[2]
• Urban	1,832
• District	3,876
• District density	56/km2 (150/sq mi)
Post code	56870
Website	www.aydinlar.bel.tr

Tillo or Aydınlar (Arabic: تلو‎) is a district of Siirt Province of Turkey. The name of the town is derived from the Arabic: "tell" تل‎ (hill).[3] The name of the district was Aydınlar until 7 November 2013, when it recovered its original Arabic name.

It has an ancient cultural and social history. In 1514, during the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim, Tillo was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Chaldiran victory. Tillo was named Aydınlar after it became a district of Siirt during the Republican era.

In the Syriac language Tillo means holy spirits, and appropriately it is the home of many tombs. Many visitors come to visit the mausoleums of holy persons such as İsmail Fakirullah Hz., İbrahim Hakkı Hz., Şeyh Hamza El Kebir Hz., Şeyh Mücahit Hz., Gavsul Memduh Hz., Zemzemul Hassa Hz. (Kadın Evliya).

The name of the district was changed on 30 October 2013 by the Turkish Parliament after a change in the constitutional law, which forbid languages other than Turkish to be used for city names.

The town is mostly inhabited by Arabs, in addition to six other villages in the province and the city of Siirt.[3]

Gallery

Tillo Clocktower
Tillo Cobbled Street
Tillo Street scene
Tillo Old house
Tillo Old house
Tillo Old house detail
Tillo Restored mosque
Tillo Restored mosque entrance
Tillo Unidentified monument
Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki
Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki
Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki
Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh
Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh
Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh
Tillo Mausoleum of Sheyh Hasan El-Fatir
Tillo Mausoleum of Sheyh Hasan El-Fatir
Tillo Four Mollas grave

References

"Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
"Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
"Lahdo, 2009. The Arabic Dialect of Tillo in the Region of Siirt: (South-eastern Turkey)" (PDF). Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 26. 283 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7385-3. 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2020.

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[distr-area-1] "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.

[population-2] "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.

[Lahdo-3] "Lahdo, 2009. The Arabic Dialect of Tillo in the Region of Siirt: (South-eastern Turkey)" (PDF). Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 26. 283 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7385-3. 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2020.