Tillo


Tillo or Aydınlar is a district of Siirt Province of Turkey. The name of the town is derived from Arabic "Tall" تل. The name of the district was Aydınlar until 7 November 2013, when it recovered its original Arabic name.
Syriac language Tillo means holy spirits, and appropriately it is the home of many tombs. In the 1514 reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim, Tillo was taken by the Ottoman Empire by the Çaldıran Victory. After Tillo became a district of Siirt, it was named Aydınlar. It has an ancient cultural and social history. Many visitors come to visit the mausoleums of holy persons such İsmail Fakirullah Hz., İbrahim Hakkı Hz., Şeyh Hamza El Kebir Hz., Şeyh Mücahit Hz., Gavsul Memduh Hz., Zemzemul Hassa Hz..
Name of the district was changed on 30 October 2013 by Turkish Parliament after change of constitutional law, which forbids languages other than Turkish to be used for city names, on 30 September 2013.
This town is inhabited by Arabs, in addition to six other villages in the province and the city of Siirt.

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