Cizre

Cizre is a town and area of Sirnak Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, on the fringe with Syria, just toward the northwest of the Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi tripoint. Cizre is authentic Gazarta and Jazirat Ibn ʿUmar, an imperative town amid the Abbasid time frame and the Crusades as a door interfacing Upper Mesopotamia to Armenia. Amid the Early Iron Age, Cizre was in the kingdom of Kumme, north of Assyria. In established vestige, it was situated in Corduen.

In 19th century grant, it was regularly named as the area of Alexander's intersection of the Tigris in 331 BC, additionally related to the Roman fortress of Bethzabd, despite the fact that Stein is suspicious of this. Cizre was home to an Armenian people group of around 3,000. Nonetheless, in late June 1915, amid the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian guys, alongside a couple of Syriac priests, were captured, tormented, and accordingly killed.

A significant number of the exploited people had their throat opening and were then tossed into the stream Tigris. The ladies were extradited on pontoons towards Mosul. A couple of made due through the methods for appropriation by nearby Kurds; be that as it may, most were assaulted as well as drowned. The staying Armenian populace, situated in the rustic parts of Cizre, was slaughtered on 8 August 1915. Barely any figured out how to survive.