Yoncalık, Yüksekova

Yoncalık (Kurdish: Pîrzalan,[2] Syriac: Pirzālan[3]) is a village in the Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province in Turkey.

[4] The village is populated by Kurds of the Dirî and Pinyanişî tribes and had a population of 432 in 2023.

[1][5] The hamlet of Çakırca, Çevreli (Çardîwar, Qardiwār) and Kuruköy are attached to Yoncalık.

[2][4] Missionary Samuel Audley Rhea visited the village during his trips to Kurdistan which Dwight Whitney Marsh wrote about in the book "The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan" published in 1869.

[6] The village was populated by 28 Assyrian families in 1850 and 60 families in 1877.