Kumluca, Lice

Kumluca (Kurdish: Fûm; Syriac: Fūm)^[1][a] is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Lice, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.^[3][4] It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 205 in 2022.^[5][6]

Kumluca
Neighbourhood
Kumluca Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 38°27′42″N 40°39′53″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Diyarbakır
District	Lice
Population  (2022)	205
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)

History

Fūm (today called Kumluca) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Armenians.^[7] In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had seventeen households, who paid fifty dues, and there was a church of Morī Qūryāqūs, but it did not have a priest.^[1] There were ninety Armenian hearths in 1880.^[8] There was an Armenian church of Surb Kirakos.^[8] In 1914, it was populated by 700 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.^[9] Amidst the Sayfo, the village was plundered and its population was massacred before mid-July 1915 by gangs of çetes.^[10]