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Deyr ü Rahba (دير الرهبة) listed as a district of the Abbasid province of Diyar Bakr, the Arabic name means the land of the Priests (geographically Syriac Priests), the name remained in use for a Kurdish chiefdom until 1626 when the whole district was transferred to Eyalet Raqqa.[1]

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  1. ^ http://www.let.uu.nl/~martin.vanbruinessen/personal/publications/Evliya/Evliya%20in%20Diyarbekir_Ch_2_Ottoman.pdf


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