Mīr ʿAlī (today called Alibey) was historically inhabited by
Syriac Orthodox Christians and
Kurdish-speaking
Armenians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 10 households, who paid 45 dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were 30 Armenian
hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church of Surb Gevorg. In 1914, there were 100
Syriacs at Mīr ʿAlī, according to the list presented to the
Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. The Armenians were killed by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the
Armenian genocide. ==References==