Yeşilyurt, Gerger
village in Gerger, Adıyaman, southeastern Turkey
Yeşilyurt (Arabic: ونك; Kurdish: Venk; Syriac: ܘܐܢܟ, romanized: Wank) is a village in the Gerger District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Ferşatan and Mukrîyanî tribes and had a population of 120 in 2021.
History
The King's Table Monastery (today called Yeşilyurt) was founded in 1138. It became known as Dayr Abū Ghālib after Athanasius Abu Ghalib, bishop of Jaiḥan (r. 1169–1177), who had been a monk at the monastery and had died there, according to the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian. The monastery's church was rebuilt by Patriarch Michael the Syrian in 1170. Joseph of Abu Ghalib’s Monastery wrote a hagiographical collection for the Mor Bar Sauma Monastery, dated October 1196, sponsored by his cousin the deacon Ṣaliba, at the request of Patriarch Michael the Syrian. Dawud of Amid resided at the Monastery of Abu Ghalib and the Monastery of Mar Abhai after his retirement as bishop of Shlabdin before 1198 prior to settling at the Monastery of Mar Iliyya. In total, the monastery produced five bishops.
The village is attested by the name Venk-i Ermeniyan in the Ottoman archives in 1519. Five deacons and one priest were consecrated for the Church of the Mother of God at Wank on 11 Tamūz (July) 1580 (AG 1891).
“Yeşilyurt, Gerger” enters the record as village in Gerger, Adıyaman, southeastern Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yeşilyurt, Gerger and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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