Gülgöze, Mardin province, Turkey : Old stone houses in Gulgoze or Inwardo, a Syriac village founded in the 10th century near Midyat, of great signific

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Gülgöze, Mardin province, Turkey : Old stone houses in Gulgoze or Inwardo, a Syriac village founded in the 10th century near Midyat, of great significance due to its roll during the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, when tens of thousands of refugees from throughout Tur Abdin resisted for 60 days the siege of Kurdish and Ottoman troops.

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