Ashitha, Lower Tyari, with terraced millet fields, 1912

PhotographAA-0470

Ashitha, Lower Tyari, with terraced millet fields, 1912

Place
Tiyari · today Türkiye
Date
1912

The large Assyrian village of Ashitha in Lower Tyari, its flat-roofed houses and terraced fields of millet climbing the valley below high mountains.

Do you recognize someone or something here?Names, places and family stories help us describe this photo properly.

Source

AINA (Assyrian International News Agency), "Pictures of Assyrian Villages in Turkey in 1912" (scans by George Slyvus; captions by Nicholas al-Jeelo)

Sergei Petrovich Olferiev (1875-1942), Russian vice-consul at Van