Kefshenne
Kayalı (Syriac: ܟܐܦ ܫܢܐ, Kefshenne: "stone of peace") is a small historically Assyrian village in the south-east of Turkey, in Şırnak Province, near Mardin Province.
Kayalı is between the cities of Midyat and İdil (Azekh, Beth zabday) near the Syriac Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery.
Kafshenne ܟܦܫܢܐ
Kefshenne is in the southeast of Turkey in the Bazebdey area near to Azekh (Beth-zabday) İdil, and Hedil – Esfes – Miden villages in Turabdin. Its name in Turkey is (Kayalı), Kefshenne (ܟܦܫܢܐ); its ancient name means "the stone of peace", or "the big rock" in Aramaic Syriac language, for the rock of Saint Basous (388 A.C باسوس، ܒܳܣܘܣ), on the entrance of Kefshenne, between Hidil (Kayi) and Kefshenne, that the saint was martyred on that rock in the fourth century; the Monastery of Saint Basous is still there in Hidil near to Kefshenne (2 km), in addition of the church of Saint Mary (Yoldath Aloho) of Kefshenne in the middle of the village that still until now after about 70 years of the leaving of the Christians of Kefshenne and its villages: Garesa and Hidil to Syria -Jordan - Jerusalem and Iraq between 1920 and 1931 after the Sayfo genocide of 1915–1923, and some of them these 20 years went from Derik (Al-Malkyea)- Syria to Sweden and other countries. The last priest of Kefshenne was Qashisho Shamoun Sherine (from Saba village).
The meaning of the name of Kafshenne
Kefshenne is the Syriac name of the village (Kayalı, Idil) in the southeast of Turkey, but it is the same meaning that was in Syriac (ܟܦܫܢܐ) that means the rock or (ܟܐܦ ܫܝܢܐ (Kefo dshaino or Kef sheno)) that means the stone of peace, because of the miracle of St. Bassus (388 A.C) that occurred on the rock between Kefshenne and Hidil (Kayı) in the fourth century that he was martyred on.
The site of Kafshenne (Kayalı)
Kafshen or Kefshenne is set in the region of Beth -Zabday ܒܝܬ ܙܒܕܝ southestern of Turkey in the province of Sirnak about 2 km from Middo (Miden) village of Tur abdin, about 15 km west of Azekh Idil, and about 30 km east of the famous monastery of Saint Mor Gabriel in Turabdin area near to Midyat city.
External links
- Site of olaf:نبذة وصور ووثائق من بلدة كفشنة (كفشن أو كفشنا)
- Book of Syriac genocide in Turfabdin 1915 كتاب ܓܘ̈ܢܚܐ ܕܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܕܛܘܪܥܒܕܝܢ للمثلث الرحمة الخوري سليمان حنو الأركحي الطورعبديني.
- آزخ أحداث ورجال - للشماس المرحوم يوسف القس - سوريا
- Book of Beth-Zabday of Archdeacon Lahdo Issac كتاب بازبدي عبق الأيمان ( ܒܝܬܙܒܕܝ ܗܪܘܡܐ ܕܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ ) للشماس لحدو اسحق.
- History of V.rev. Joseph David تاريخ الخوري يوسف داوود.
- Stastiq some states and villages of 1870 by Raban monk and then Syriac Orthodox patriarch Mar Ignatios Abdullah Sattof Saddyالكتاب المخطوط الذهبي استاستيق بعض بلاد وقرى سنة 1870م للمثلث الرحمات البطريرك السرياني الأنطاكي الأرثوذكسي مار اغناطيوس عبد الله سطوف الصددي.
Coordinates: 37°20′30″N 41°53′25″E / 37.34167°N 41.89028°E