Siirt

Siirt is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of Siirt Province. The number of inhabitants in the city as indicated by the 2009 statistics was 129,188. The lion's share of the city's populace is Arabic and Kurdish. Beforehand known as Saird, in pre-Islamic occasions Siirt was a bishopric of the Eastern Orthodox Church. An lit up composition known as the Syriac Bible of Paris may have started from the Bishop of Siirt's library, Siirt's Christians would have revered in Syriac, a ceremonial dialect identified with Arabic still being used by the Chaldean Rite, other Eastern Christians in India, and the Nestorians along the Silk Road to the extent China.

The Chronicle of Seert was safeguarded in the city; it depicts the religious history of the Persian domain through the center of the 7th century. From 1858 to 1915 the city was the seat of a religious administrator of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The majority of the city's Assyrians, including Addai Scher their diocese supervisor were slaughtered amid the Assyrian Genocide alongside the loss of the Syriac original copy of Theodore of Mopsuestia's De Incarnatione.