Düzalan (; ) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 455 in 2022.
History Bāmīdān (today called Düzalan) 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 2 households, who did not pay any dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There was 1 Armenian hearth in 1880. It was located in the kaza (district) of Silvan in the Diyarbekir sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in . The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.
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