Demiryol () is a neighbourhood in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey.
TalmarÃÂ (today called Demiryol) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 2 households, who paid 17 dues, and had one priest. There was a Syriac Orthodox church.
It was populated by 300 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza (district) of Beà Âiri. The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, à Âegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.
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