Yünlüce (; ) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Lice, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey.Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 298 in 2022.
Etymology It has been suggested that the village's name in Kurdish and Syriac is derived from mālaḥtā ("saltworks" or "salt garden" in Syriac).
History Mlaḥso (today called Yünlüce) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 34 households, who paid 79 dues, and was served by the Church of Mortī Šmūnī and two priests. Outside of the village there were churches of Mar Tuma, Mar Eliyo, and Nǎbi Yawnan. In 1914, it was populated by 800 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It had 200–300 Christian families, including Armenians and Syriacs, all of whom spoke the Mlaḥsô language. The village was destroyed and almost all of the villagers were killed by Muslim Kurds from the neighbouring villages amidst the Sayfo. The name of the village was consequently Turkified to Yünlüce.
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