Tillo

{{Short description|Municipality in Siirt Province, Turkey}}

{{For-multi|the village|Aydınlar, İznik|the saint|Saint Tillo}}

{{Infobox Turkey place

|type=Municipality| name = Tillo

|province=Siirt| image_skyline = Tillo-Sêrt 2017.jpg

| image_caption = View of Tillo

| coordinates = {{coord|37|57|03|N|42|00|48|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| population_footnotes =

|district=Tillo|population_total=2022| population_as_of = 2022

| website = {{URL| tillo.bel.tr | tillo.bel.tr}}

}}

Tillo or Aydınlar ({{Langx|ar|تل}}) is a town in the Tillo District of Siirt Province in Turkey.{{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}} Its population is 2,022 (2022).{{Cite web |title=Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports|url=https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/medas/?kn=95&locale=en |access-date=19 September 2023|publisher=TÜİK|language=en|format=XLS}} The town is inhabited by Arabs and Kurds.{{Cite book |title=Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey |year=1989 |editor-last=Peter Alfred |editor-first=Andrews |pages=378 |editor-last2=Benninghaus |editor-first2=Rüdiger}}

Etymology

The name of the town is derived from the {{langx|ar|تل|translit=tell|lit=hill}}.{{cite web |last=Lahdo |first=Ablahad |date=2009 |title=Lahdo, 2009. The Arabic Dialect of Tillo in the Region of Siirt: (South-eastern Turkey). |url=https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:218909/FULLTEXT02.pdf |accessdate=4 June 2020 |work=Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 26. 283 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7385-3.}}

Neighborhoods

Tillo is divided into the neighborhoods of Fakirullah, Mücahit and Saydanlar.

Demographics

The Arabs of the town belong to the tribes of Xālidiyya and Abbāsiyya who claim to have migrated to Tillo from Homs and Saudi Arabia about 700 and 400 years ago, respectively. Both tribes adhere to Shafi'i Islam and assumingly settled in the region as missionaries. The Kurds were followers of Ismail Faqirullah and Şeyh İbrahim El Mücahit and settled in Tillo as they wished to serve them there.{{Cite journal |last=Lahdo |first=Ablahad |date=2009 |editor-last=Csátó |editor-first=Éva A. |editor2-last=Joakim |editor2-first=Enwall |editor3-last=Isaksson |editor3-first=Bo |editor4-last=Jahani |editor4-first=Carina |editor5-last=Månsson |editor5-first=Anette |editor6-last=Saxena |editor6-first=Anju |editor7-last=Schaefer |editor7-first=Christiane |title=Some Remarks on Language Use and Arabic Dialects in Eastern Turkey |journal=Orientalia Suecana |volume=LVIII |pages=106–107 |issn=0078-6578}}

Linguistically, the Arab population, more or less, all speak Kurdish beside Arabic, while few Kurds know Arabic.

In recent decades, the Arab population has decreased to due migration to Istanbul, while the Kurdish population has steadily grown.{{Cite journal |last=Lahdo |first=Ablahad |date=2009 |editor-last=Csátó |editor-first=Éva A. |editor2-last=Joakim |editor2-first=Enwall |editor3-last=Isaksson |editor3-first=Bo |editor4-last=Jahani |editor4-first=Carina |editor5-last=Månsson |editor5-first=Anette |editor6-last=Saxena |editor6-first=Anju |editor7-last=Schaefer |editor7-first=Christiane |title=Some Remarks on Language Use and Arabic Dialects in Eastern Turkey |journal=Orientalia Suecana |volume=LVIII |page=112|issn=0078-6578}}

Population

Historic population figures of the town:{{Cite web |title=Genel Nüfus Sayımları |url=https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/nufusmenuapp/menu.zul |access-date=1 March 2023 |language=tr}}{{Historical populations|5=1965|6=2953|7=1970|8=2507|9=1980|10=2267|11=1990|12=2789|13=2000|14=2981|15=2010|16=1885|17=2020|18=2219|19=2022|20=2022|align=none}}

Gallery

File:Ibrahim hakkı shrine in siirt tillo.jpg|İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi shrine in Tillo, Siirt

File:Tillo Clock Tower 8882.jpg|Tillo Clocktower

File:Tillo Cobbled Street 8865.jpg|Tillo Cobbled Street

File:Tillo Street scene 8874.jpg|Tillo Street scene

File:Tillo Old house 8779.jpg|Tillo Old house

File:Tillo Old house 8864.jpg|Tillo Old house

File:Tillo Old house 8872.jpg|Tillo Old house detail

File:Tillo Restored mosque 8767.jpg|Tillo Restored mosque

File:Tillo Restored mosque 8776.jpg|Tillo Restored mosque entrance

File:Tillo Unidentified monument 8832.jpg|Tillo Unidentified monument

File:Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki 8801.jpg|Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki

File:Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki 8809.jpg|Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki

File:Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki 8810.jpg|Tillo Mausoleum Ismail Fakirullah and Ibrahim Hakki

File:Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh 8849.jpg|Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh

File:Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh 8842.jpg|Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh

File:Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh 8836.jpg|Tillo mausoleum of Gavsul Memduh

File:Tillo Mausoleum of Sheyh Hasan El-Fatir8782.jpg|Tillo Mausoleum of Sheyh Hasan El-Fatir

File:Tillo Mausoleum of Sheyh Hasan El-Fatir 8781.jpg|Tillo Mausoleum of Sheyh Hasan El-Fatir

File:Tillo Four Mollas 8788.jpg|Tillo Four Mollas grave

References