Büyükkadı () is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Sur, Diyarbakır Province, southeastern Turkey.Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
History Al-Qaḍyiah (today called Büyükkadı) was historically inhabited by Armenians and Syriac Orthodox Christians. Timothy Shukr Allah, son of Yusuf, metropolitan of Amid in 1690–1714, was from Al-Qaḍyiah. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 17 households, who paid 19 dues, and did not have a priest. The village was plundered during the Massacres of Diyarbekir (1895). It was located in the Diyarbakır central district (merkez kaza) in the Diyarbakır sanjak in the Diyarbekir vilayet in . In 1914, it was inhabited by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation.
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