Dargeçit

Dargeçit (Kerboran ), is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 519 km2, and its population is 27,147 (2022). The town is principally populated by Kurds of the Erebiyan tribe.

History
In the nineteenth century, all the urban settlements in this zone, including Midyat and Kerboran, as well as Mardin and a lot of villages around them and in the Tur Abdin area were populated by Assyrian-Syriac Christians.

The district Dargeçit was established in 1987. Since the 2013 administrative reform, Dargeçit is a metropolitan district and municipality. Prior to the reform, the district comprised the main town of Dargeçit (four neighbourhoods: Bahçebaşı, Safa, Saray and Tepebaşı), two towns (Kılavuz and Sümer), thirty-six villages and twenty-six hamlets.

Composition
There are 41 neighbourhoods in Dargeçit District:


 * Akçaköy (Îzar)
 * Akyol (Derêca)
 * Alayunt (Arbayê)
 * Altınoluk (Gera Cafer)
 * Altıyol (Serdef)
 * Bağözü (Trîwa)
 * Bahçebaşı
 * Batur (Batêr)
 * Baysun (Êzdîna)
 * Beğendi (Gizre)
 * Belen (Bakvan)
 * Bostanlı (Wersikê)
 * Çatalan (Deyrik)
 * Çatalçam (Dayro da-Slibo)
 * Çavuşlu (Zêwkê)
 * Çelikköy (Çêlik)
 * Çukurdere (Gelîkur)
 * Değerli (Îwan)
 * Gürgen (Botijê)
 * Gürışık (Gundê Xace)
 * Ilısu (Germav)
 * Karabayır (Zengan)
 * Kartalkaya (Lîyan)
 * Kılavuz (Xelilan)
 * Kısmetli (Basiqil kêvil)
 * Korucu (Şikeftika)
 * Kumdere (Şibêbiyê)
 * Kuşluca (Kopraz)
 * Ormaniçi (Qawaqa)
 * Safa
 * Saray
 * Suçatı (Kerbent)
 * Sümer (Deywan)
 * Tanyeri (Rover)
 * Tavşanlı (Xirabê Qesrê)
 * Temelli (Emara)
 * Tepebaşı
 * Ulaş (Dîlan)
 * Yanılmaz (Guriza)
 * Yılmaz (Mêranê)
 * Yoncalı (Zivinga Çelik)