Korkut

Korkut

Human settlements in the Muş Plain date back approximately 10,000 years. Although the mound, which gave its old name to the town of Korkut, has not been studied sufficiently, it can be dated at least to the Old Bronze Age (around 3000 BC). In the 9th century BC, the region came under the rule of the Van-centered Urartian state for a while. Taron, who dominated the Muş Plain. Archived 3 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Principality (or kingdom) Armenian from the mid-4th century to the early 9th century Mamikonian Archived 17 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine. The Bagratids, another Armenian lord dynasty, ruled around 825 by the (or Mamigonian) dynasty. Archived 14 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine. It came under the rule of the Pakradunis. It is understood that the town of Til gained its current importance during the second principality period in question. In 967, the Byzantine Empire put an end to the existence of the Taron kingdom and established the central government in the region, and about a hundred years after this date, Seyit İbrahim, one of Alparslan's commanders, established Turkish sovereignty. The old name of the town, "Til", was first recorded in the mid-11th century in the chronicle of the Armenian historian Stepanos Asoğik. Archived 3 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine. According to Asogik's statement, Vasil I (Basileios) of Armenian origin, who was elected Byzantine emperor in 867, was originally a villager from Til. Til, which is essentially an Aramaic (i.e. Syriac) word, means "mound, man-made hill, tumulus". It is used with the same meaning in regional languages such as Armenian, Kurdish and Arabic. It is stated that in the last years of the 19th century, 37 Armenian households and 61 Kurdish households lived in Til village. According to another source dated 1914, a total of around 500 Armenians and around 80 Circassians lived in 52 households in the town, and there were two Armenian churches named Meryemana and Surp Mesrob and a primary school with 36 students. Today, almost the entire population of the town speaks Kurdish. Til, which remained in the status of a subdistrict in the central district of Muş for a long time, was renamed Korkut in 1964. It gained district status with the law no. 3644 dated 9.5.1990.