Dargecit

Dargecit is a district of the Mardin Province of Turkey, historically populated through ethnic-Kurds. In 1900, the town had approximately 300 families. Prior to the Assyrian and Armenian Genocides this metropolis turned into inhabited by Kurds, Assyrians/Syriacs and Armenians. Before 1979, it changed into nevertheless inhabited via Kurds and Assyrians, however most of the Assyrian/Syriac human beings fled/left the metropolis after the murder of Andreas Demir Lahdik, the Mayor of Kerburan on the time.

The authorities then changed the name of the city to Dargecit via pressure. After the exodus, the town turned into almost absolutely populated through a Kurdish majority, with a tiny Assyrian remnant. There is the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mor Kuriyakos, that's now restored way to the Assyrian/Syriac diaspora. There also are other churches, one Protestant and the other Catholic. They are both deserted. A style of definitions, invoking population, populace density, number of dwellings, financial feature, and infrastructure, are used in national censuses to categorise populations as urban.