Tillo

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.

Tillo
Tillo
Coordinates: 37°57′03″N 42°00′48″E
CountryTurkey
ProvinceSiirt
Government
  MayorMehmet Mesut Memduhoğlu (AKP)
  KaymakamMehmet Şirin Yaşar
Area
  District69.20 km2 (26.72 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)[2]
  Urban
1,832
  District
3,876
  District density56/km2 (150/sq mi)
Post code
56870
Websitewww.aydinlar.bel.tr

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]

References

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


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