Acar, Sason

Acar (Kurdish: Herend) is a village in the Sason District, Batman Province, Turkey.^[1] The village is populated by Kurds of the Xiyan tribe and had a population of 472 in 2021.^[2]^[3]

The hamlets of Güneşli (Herda) and Hasanlar (Hasanan) are attached to the village.^[1]

The village has an Armenian population that converted to Islam in 1983.^[4]

References Edit

^ ^a ^b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
^ (in Turkish). 28 July 2016. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
^ Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 357.

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