Karagöl (; ) is a settlement in the district of Dargeçit, Mardin Province in Turkey. It is located in the historic region of Tur Abdin.
In the village, there is a church of Morī Ya'qūb.
Etymology The Kurdish name of the village is derived from "Der Yakub". It begins with the word "dayr" ("monastery" in Aramaic).
History In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that Dayro d-Qubo (today called Karagöl) had twelve households, who paid thirty-eight dues, and did not have a priest. In 1914, it was inhabited by 100 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. They belonged to the Syriac Orthodox Church. It was located in the kaza (district) of Midyat. Amidst the Sayfo, the villagers were escorted to safety at Hah by Agha Hajo of the Kurtak clan.
95 Turoyo-speaking Christians in 15 families resided at Dayro d-Qubo in 1966. The village was forcibly evacuated by the Turkish army in 1995 due to the Kurdish–Turkish conflict and its population moved to the nearby village of Beth Kustan. By 2003, five families had returned to Dayro d-Qubo and had begun building two new houses and restoring the village's church that had been vandalised by Kurds. In 2013, the village was inhabited by 4 Syriac families.
Demography The following is a list of the number of Syriac Orthodox families that have inhabited Dayro d-Qubo per year stated. Unless otherwise stated, all figures are from the list provided in The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond: Crisis then Revival, as noted in the bibliography below.
1915: 10 1966: 15 1978: 12 1979: 7 1981: 4 1995: 2
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