Baz (tribe)

Mata Khtata, a village in Baz, Hakkari, c. 1900 Assyrians under a tree in Baz, Hakkari, c. 1900

Baz (Syriac: ܒܙ) was one of the five independent Assyrian tribes of the Hakkari region.[1]

## History

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Maha Khtayya was the chief village of the region, followed by Shwawwa.[2]

The Assyrians of the Baz tribe were renowned carpenters and iron-workers who worked not only in their villages, but throughout Mosul and other large towns of Upper Mesopotamia.[3]

## Assyrian Villages in Baz, Turkey

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The Assyrian settlements that traditionally comprised the Baz region in Hakkari consist of the following villages.[2][4] The region has been empty since they were abandoned in 1915 due to the Assyrian genocide.[2]

* Arwantus (Artusnaye)
* Shwawwa (Shawutnaye)
* Maha Khtayya (Mahaye) (37°27 N, 43°53 E)
* Be-Selim (Selimnaye)
* Argab (Argabaye)
* Kojij (Kojijnaye)

## Current Baznaye settlements

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These are the villages occupied after the Baznaye were resettled by the British in 1920s and the French in the 1930s.

Assyrian church of Mar Mattai in Sarsing.

Iraq

* Babilo (Shawutnaye)
* Bagereh (Selimnaye)
* Chaqala (Kojijnaye)
* Sardarawa (Artusnaye)
* Sorka (Mahaye)
* Simele (Mahaye)
* Badarrash (Artusnaye)
* Sarsing (Artusnaye)
* Sikren (Selimnaye)
* Sedar (Shawutnaye)
* Pirozawa (Argabaye)
* Ain Sifni (Mixed Baznaye)
* Mawana (Mixed Baznaye)

Syria

* Tell Baz (Shawutnaye, Mahaye and some Argabaye)[5][6]
* Tell Ruman Foqani (Selimnaye and Mahaye)[5][7]

## Famous people

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* General Agha Petros Elia \- Assyrian military leader during World War I and Chief Negotiator for the *Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people during the 1920s.

## References

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1. ^ Wilmshurst, David (2000). The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. University of Virginia: Peeters. p. 285\. ISBN 9782877235037.
2. ^ a b c Mutzafi, Hezy (2000). "The Neo-Aramaic dialect of Maha Khtaya d-Baz. Phonology, morphology and texts". Journal of Semitic Studies. 45: 293, 294. doi:10.1093/jss/45.2.293.
3. ^ Maunsell, F.R. (1901). "Central Kurdistan". The Geographical Journal. 18 (2): 138. doi:10.2307/1775333. JSTOR 1775333.
4. ^ Ainsworth, William (1841). "An Account of a Visit to the Chaldeans, Inhabiting Central Kurdistan; And of an Ascent of the Peak of Rowandiz (Tur Sheikhiwa) in Summer in 1840". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 11: 35. doi:10.2307/1797632. JSTOR 1797632.
5. ^ a b Dodge, Bayard (1 July 1940). "The settlement of the Assyrians on the Khabbur". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 27 (3): 314. doi:10.1080/03068374008730969. ISSN 0035-8789.
6. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamir: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
7. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamir: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2020-04-25.

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