Üçköy, Nusaybin

Arkaḥ (today called Üçköy) is mentioned in the Life of Malke, likely written in the ninth or tenth century, in which it is noted that Mor Malke resided near the village, where he performed several miracles and gained Šlémūn bar Wahbūn as a disciple.{{sfnmp|Palmer|1990|1pp=17, 33|Fiey|2004|2pp=130–131}} The Mor Malke Monastery was founded near the village about the sixth century.{{sfnp|Barsoum|2003|p=566}} Arkaḥ was inhabited by adherents of the Church of the East until it was abandoned and eventually resettled by Syriac Orthodox Christians in the 1830s and the Church of Mor Ephraim and Mor Theodorus was rebuilt, however it was still in ruins when the village was visited by Gertrude Bell in 1909.{{sfnp|Al-Jeloo|2015|p=114}}

The Syriac Catholic bishop Gabriel Tappouni recorded that the village was populated by 400 Syriac Orthodox Christians in 80 families and were served by one priest in 1913.{{sfnp|Courtois|2004|p=41}} In 1914, Arkaḥ was inhabited by 300 or 400 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.{{efn|It has been suggested that the village was erroneously listed twice, as Harabali with a population of 300 in the kaza of Habab (attached to the kaza of Nusaybin) and Harab-Allé with a population of 400 in the kaza of Midyat.{{sfnmp|1a1=Jongerden|1a2=Verheij|1y=2012|1pp=323, 325|2a1=Gaunt|2y=2006|2pp=425, 427}}}} Amidst the Sayfo, the village's population took refuge at the Mor Malke Monastery.{{sfnp|Gaunt|2006|p=201}} The population of the village was 743 in 1960.{{sfnp|Ritter|1967|p=14}} There were 950 Turoyo-speaking Christians in 120 families in 1966.{{sfnp|Ritter|1967|p=14}} In the late 20th century, a number of villagers emigrated to Germany.{{sfnp|Courtois|2013|p=146}}

The following is a list of the number of Syriac families that have inhabited Arkaḥ per year stated. Unless otherwise stated, all figures are from the list provided in Eastern Christianity, Theological Reflection on Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Holy Land and Christian Encounter with Islam and the Muslim World, as noted in the bibliography below.{{sfnp|Brock|2021|p=167}}{{efn|The size of a single family varies between five and ten persons.{{sfnp|Brock|2021|p=167}}}}

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• 1915: 70/80{{sfnmp|Gaunt|2006|1p=201|Courtois|2004|2pp=41, 226}}
• 1966: 120
• 1979: 103
• 1981: 92
• 1987: 70/88{{sfnp|Courtois|2004|p=226}}
• 1995: 70
• 1997: 38
• 2013: 45{{sfnp|Courtois|2013|p=146}}

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• {{cite book | last1 =Al-Jeloo|first1 =Nicholas|date=2015|chapter=Transferrable Religious Heritage: Church Buildings in Northern Mesopotamia|title=Le patrimoine architectural de l'Église orthodoxe d'Antioche: Perspectives comparatives avec les autres groupes religieux du Moyen-Orient et des régions limitrophes|publisher=Publications of the University of Balamand|pages=111–127|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367272468|access-date=14 October 2024}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Barsoum| first1=Aphrem|date=2003|title=The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences|edition=2nd|publisher=Gorgias Press|translator=Matti Moosa|author-link=Ignatius Aphrem I|url=https://archive.org/details/EphremBarsoumMattiMoosaTheScatteredPearlsAHistoryOfSyriacLiteratureAndSciences|access-date=14 July 2020}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Barsoum| first1 =Aphrem|date=2008|title=The History of Tur Abdin|publisher=Gorgias Press|translator=Matti Moosa|author-link=Ignatius Aphrem I|url=https://archive.org/details/the-history-of-tur-abdin|access-date=1 April 2021}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Brock|first1 =Sebastian|date=2021|chapter=The Syrian Orthodox Church in the twentieth century|title=Eastern Christianity, Theological Reflection on Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Holy Land and Christian Encounter with Islam and the Muslim World|publisher=Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust|pages=155–181|url=https://www.livingstonesonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LSYBws2021.pdf|access-date=12 August 2022}}
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• {{cite book | last1 =Fiey| first1=Jean Maurice |date=2004|title=Saints Syriaques|publisher=The Darwin Press|author-link=Jean Maurice Fiey|editor1=Lawrence Conrad|language=fr}}
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• {{cite book | last1 =Palmer|first1 =Andrew|date=1990|title=Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur Abdin|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/PalmerMonkAndMasonOnTheTigrisFrontier|access-date=15 July 2020}}
• {{cite book | last1 =Ritter| first1 =Hellmut|date=1967|title=Turoyo: Die Volkssprache der Syrischen Christen des Tur 'Abdin|volume=1|publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag|language=de|authorlink=Hellmut Ritter|url=https://archive.org/details/turoyodievolkssp0001hell/page/n5/mode/2up}}
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