Özet:

In this study, the names of the villages in Sirnak’s Idil district, which is located in the Tigris Region of Southeastern Anatolia Region, are examined geographically. 68 villages in the district are examined and in this examination, the old and current names of the villages are indicated. The names are in two categories, physical and humane, in general. In this general categorization, 59% of the names of villages in Idil district are named after humane conditions while 41% of them are named after physical conditions. This general categorization is divided and analyzed in subcategories of villages by the names according to the elevation, the land, climate, hydrographic, floral characteristics, animal species, personal characteristics and ownership, religion and faith, the community, tools or a surrounding structure, the mythology, and the aftermath of an event. As a result of this study, it was observed that the names of villages in Idil district are of Syriac and Kurdish origin and all village names have been converted into Turkish starting from the 1940s (Tunçel, 2000). Although many years have passed, it was observed that people there still uses the old names of the settlements. Because many of the names given later are random and irrelevant to both the old name and the characteristics of the settlement. This is why the categorization is based on the old names, and quite significant results are obtained. It was revealed that the old names of the settlements were given according to the physical and humane factors of the place. 

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