Baz (tribe)

Baz (Syriac: ܒܙ) was one of the five independent Assyrian tribes of the Hakkari region.

[1] Maha Khtayya was the chief village of the region, followed by Shwawwa.

[2] The Assyrians of the Baz tribe were renowned carpenters and iron-workers who worked not only in their villages, but throughout Mosul and other large towns of Upper Mesopotamia.

[3] The Assyrian settlements that traditionally comprised the Baz region in Hakkari consist of the following villages.

[2] These are the villages occupied after the Baznaye were resettled by the British in 1920s and the French in the 1930s.