{{Short description|Village in Şırnak Province, Turkey}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}{{Use British English|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox Turkey place |name=Andaç |type=village |coordinates={{Coord|37.356|43.263|display=inline,title}} |province=Şırnak |district=Uludere |seat=|population_as_of=2023 |image_skyline=Halmonspring.jpg|image_caption=Village|population_total=3386 |population_footnotes=<ref name=tuik/> }} '''Andaç''' ({{Langx|ku|Elemûna}};{{sfnp|Baz|2016|p=104}} {{Langx|syr|Halmūn}}){{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=277}}{{refn|Alternatively transliterated as Halamoon, Halmon, or Alamun.{{sfnmp|Badger|1852|1p=394|Aboona|2008|2p=291|Yacoub|2016|3p=166|Stafford|1935|4p=41}}|group=nb}} is a village in the Uludere District of Şırnak Province in Turkey.<ref name="e-icisleri.gov.tr">{{Cite web |title=Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri |url=https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx |access-date=19 December 2022 |website=T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı |language=tr}}</ref> The village is populated by Kurds from the Kaşuran tribe and had a population of 3,386 in 2023.{{sfnp|Baz|2016|p=104}}<ref name=tuik/>
The hamlets of Arslanlı ({{Lang|ku|Şivrezan}}) and Yarma ({{Lang|ku|Gelemus, Geramûsa}}) are attached to Andaç.<ref name="e-icisleri.gov.tr"/>
==History== Halmūn (today called Andaç) was historically inhabited by Assyrian people and located in the Lower Tyari district in the Hakkari region.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=288}} It is identified with the village of Halmon recorded in the diocese of Beth Nuhadra.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=277}} It had one church and was served as part of the diocese of the Patriarch of the Church of the East.{{sfnmp|Wilmshurst|2000|1p=288|Aboona|2008|2p=288}} According to the English missionary George Percy Badger, the village was inhabited by 50 Assyrian families in 1850, all of whom belonged to the Church of the East and were served by two priests.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=288}} By 1877, the village's population had grown to 60 families with one priest when visited by Edward Lewes Cutts.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=291}} Halmūn was destroyed by the Ottoman Army in June 1915 amidst the Sayfo.{{sfnp|Yacoub|2016|p=166}} Survivors were later resettled at Cham Sus in Iraq.{{sfnp|Stafford|1935|p=41}}
==Population== Population history from 2007 to 2023:<ref name=tuik>{{cite web|url=https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/medas/?kn=95&locale=en |title=Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters|publisher=TÜİK |access-date=10 May 2024}}</ref> {{Historical populations|2007|2504|2010|2797|2015|3763|2020|2639|2023|3386|title=Population|align=none}}
==References== '''Notes''' {{reflist|group=nb}} '''Citations''' {{reflist|30em}}
==Bibliography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *{{cite book | last1 =Aboona | first1 =Hirmis |date=2008|title=Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans: Intercommunal Relations on the Periphery of the Ottoman Empire|publisher=Cambria Press|url=https://archive.org/details/HirmisAboonaAssyriansKurdsAndOttomansIntercommunalRelationsOnThePeripheryOfTheOttomanEmpire|access-date=27 August 2020}} *{{cite book | last1 =Badger| first1 =George Percy|date=1852|title=The Nestorians and Their Rituals: With the Narrative of a Mission to Mesopotamia and Coordistan in 1842-1844, and of a Late Visit to Those Countries in 1850; Also, Researches Into the Present Condition of the Syrian Jacobites, Papal Syrians, and Chaldeans, and an Inquiry Into the Religious Tenets of the Yezeedees|url=https://archive.org/details/nestorianstheirr01badg|access-date=21 December 2022|author-link=George Percy Badger|volume=1}} *{{Cite book |last=Baz |first=Ibrahim |title=Şırnak aşiretleri ve kültürü |year=2016 |isbn=9786058849631 |language=tr}} *{{cite book | last1 =Stafford| first1 =Ronald Sempill|date=1935|title=The Tragedy of the Assyrians|url=http://www.aina.org/books/tota.pdf|access-date=21 December 2022}} *{{cite book | last1 =Wilmshurst| first1 =David|date=2000|title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913|publisher=Peeters Publishers|url=http://www.aina.org/books/ecclesiastical-organisation-of-the-church-of-the-east.pdf|access-date=30 October 2024}} *{{cite book | last1 =Yacoub| first1 =Joseph |date=2016|title=Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History|publisher=Oxford University Press|translator=James Ferguson}} {{div col end}}
{{Authority control}} {{Uludere District}}
Category:Historic Assyrian communities in Şırnak Province Category:Villages in Uludere District Category:Kurdish settlements in Şırnak Province Category:Places of the Sayfo