Gümüşgün, Nizip Explained

Type:	neighbourhood
Province:	Gaziantep
District:	Nizip
Gümüşgün
Population Total:	60
Population As Of:	2022
Coordinates:	37.2008°N 37.8292°W

Gümüşgün, historically Ehnesh or Ehneş, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nizip, Gaziantep Province, Turkey.^[1] The village had a population of 60 in 2022.^[2]

History

The village, along with the region, was initially inhabited by Syrian Jacobite Christians, who were deported by the Byzantines in 777 to various places including the Balkans and later Ramla in Palestine. The region then experienced a demographic shift from Syrian to Armenian, and prior to the Armenian genocide, the village was entirely inhabited by Armenians.^[3] In the 1930s, a rich Jewish landlord from Aintab possessed a lot of land in the village, which was noted as Kurdish.^[4] The village is inhabited by Muhacir Turks from Thessaloniki who settled in the village after the Balkan Wars and the population exchange between Greece and Turkey.^[5]

Bibliography

• Palmer . Andrew . Hokwerda . Hero . Smits . Edmé Renno . Woesthuis . Marinus M. . The Messiah and the Mahdi History Presented as the Writing on the Wall . Polyphonia Byzantina, Studies in Honour of Willem J. Aerts . 1993 . Egbert Forsten . Groningen . 45–84.

Further reading

• Web site: Sarafian collection - Paris . Houshamadyan . 1 May 2023.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri . 19 December 2022 . T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı . tr.
2. Web site: Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) - Results of 31 December 2022 . 12 March 2023 . . XLS.
3. Book: Sarafean . Georg Avedis . A Briefer History of Aintab A Concise History of the Cultural, Religious, Educational, Political, Industrial and Commercial Life of the Armenians of Aintab . 1957 . Union of the Armenians of Aintab . Boston . 27 . 4 September 2022 .
4. Book: Şanlı, Süleyman . Jews of Turkey: Migration, Culture and Memory . . 2019 . 105.
5. Web site: 8 July 2021 . Gaziantep : Sular Altında Kalan Köy ve Şehirler . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210802020656/https://www.bakmadangezme.com/gaziantep-sular-altinda-kalan-koy-ve-sehirler/ . 2 August 2021 . 21 January 2023 . Bakmadan Gezme.