the local assyrians/syriacs, while very reduced due to the massacres of the assyrian genocide and conflicts between the kurds and turks, hold on to two of the oldest monasteries in the world, dayro d-mor hananyo (turkish "deyrülzafaran", english "saffron monastery") and deyrulumur monastery. the christian community is concentrated on the tur abdin plateau and in the town of midyat, with a smaller community (approximately 200) in the provincial capital.