Tepeüstü, Nusaybin

Tepeüstü^[a] (Kurdish: Tilminar; Syriac: Tel-Manar)^[3][b] is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province in Turkey.^[5] The village is populated by Kurds of the Kasikan tribe and had a population of 1,269 in 2021.^[1][6]

Tepeüstü
Neighbourhood
Outskirts of the village
Tepeüstü Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37.113°N 41.382°E / 37.113; 41.382
Country	Turkey
Province	Mardin
District	Nusaybin
Population  (2021)[1]	1,269
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)

History

Tel-Manar (today called Tepeüstü) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians.^[7] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had eleven households, who paid thirty dues, and it did not have a church or a priest.^[2] In 1914, it was populated by 150 Syriacs, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[8] There were ten Syriac families in 1915.^[9] Amidst the Sayfo, the Syriacs took refuge at Mharkan, where they were then killed by Yusuf Hajo.^[3] By 1987, there were no remaining Syriacs.^[9]