Dera Shish

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Dera Shish ({{langx|ar|دئيره شيش}},{{cite web |url=https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=10470738&fid=3190&c=iraq|title=Dera Shish: Iraq|date=18 November 2003|website=Geographic.org|access-date=7 May 2020}} {{Langx|ku|دێرشیش}}){{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=2009 - ناوی پاریزگا. يه که کارگيرييه كانی پاریزگاكانی هه ریمی کوردستان|url=http://www.krso.net/files/articles/130814110413.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314064035/http://krso.net/files/articles/130814110413.pdf |archive-date=2017-03-14 |access-date=6 February 2021|website=Kurdistan Region Statistics Office (KRSO)|page=149|language=ku}}{{refn|Alternatively transliterated as Derashīsh,{{sfnp|Donabed|2015|pp=306-307}} Der Shish,{{sfnp|Eshoo|2004|p=13}} or Deir Shīsh.{{cite web |url=http://syriaca.org/place/1805.html|title=ʿUmra |last1=Carlson|first1=Thomas A. |date=9 December 2016|website=Syriac Gazetteer|access-date=7 May 2020}}|group=nb}} also known as ʿŪmrā and ‘Ūmra Shghisha, is a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located near the Iraq–Turkey border in the district of Zakho.

In the village, there was a church of Mar Ephrem.{{sfnp|Donabed|2015|pp=306-307}} The Monastery of Mar Atqen was located near the village.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=110}}

History

The Monastery of Mar Atqen is mentioned in the 9th century Book of Chastity by Ishoʿdnaḥ.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=110}} In 1913, 200 Chaldean Catholic Assyrians inhabited Dera Shish, and were served by one functioning church as part of the diocese of Zakho.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=109}} In the Iraqi census of 1957, the village had a population of 361 people.{{sfnp|Donabed|2015|pp=306-307}} A significant number of inhabitants fled as a consequence of the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in the early 1960s.{{sfnp|Donabed|2015|pp=306-307}} Dera Shish was destroyed by the Iraqi government in 1975, displacing the remaining 50 families,{{sfnp|Donabed|2015|pp=306-307}} and the monastery was also demolished by Iraqi soldiers during the Al-Anfal campaign in 1987.{{cite web |url=https://www.ishtartv.com/en/viewarticle,35242.html|title=Der Shish (umra)|date=5 June 2011|website=Ishtar TV|access-date=7 May 2020}}

By 2011, 8 families had returned to Dera Shish, and the Hezel Foundation had constructed 20 houses and a community hall, and developed the village's infrastructure. As of 2016, the village is inhabited by 32 Assyrians.{{cite web |url=https://www.shlama.org/population?fbclid=IwAR0rMdQbvDzjzV0_CIWBCjOGCU4OSVLrbsltgKijiY1fqYC2H6VAoQ8hJ8M|title=Population Project|website=Shlama Foundation|access-date=19 August 2021}}

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Bibliography

{{cite book | last1 =Donabed| first1 = Sargon George |date=2015 |title=Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century|publisher=Edinburgh University Press}}
{{cite book | last = Eshoo| first = Majed|translator=Mary Challita |title = The Fate Of Assyrian Villages Annexed To Today's Dohuk Governorate In Iraq And The Conditions In These Villages Following The Establishment Of The Iraqi State In 1921|date = 2004|url = http://www.aina.org/reports/avod.pdf|access-date=7 May 2020}}
{{cite book | last1 =Wilmshurst| first1 =David|date=2000|title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913|publisher=Peeters Publishers}}

Category:Populated places in Dohuk Province

Category:Assyrian communities in Iraq