Mercimekli[a] (Arabic: حبسناس; Kurdish: Hapisnas;[3][b] Syriac: ܚܒܣܢܐܣ, romanized: Habsnas)[5][c] is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Midyat, Mardin Province in Turkey.

[11] The Church of Mar Shim’un at Habsnas (today called Mercimekli) was built at the beginning of the sixth century or shortly afterwards.

[16] In 1914, it was inhabited by 450 Assyrians, as per the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.

[18] Amidst the Sayfo, the village was attacked by Kurds of the Rama tribe on 11 June during the night and fighting continued into the following day.

Unless otherwise stated, all figures are from the list provided in The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond: Crisis then Revival, as noted in the bibliography below.