Tillo

Tillo or Aydınlar () is a district of Siirt Province of Turkey. The name of the town is derived from the (hill). The name of the district was Aydınlar until 7 November 2013, when it recovered its original Arabic name.
It has an ancient cultural and social history. In 1514, during the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim, Tillo was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Chaldiran victory. Tillo was named Aydınlar after it became a district of Siirt during the Republican era.
In the Syriac language "Tillo" means holy spirits, and appropriately it is the home of many tombs. Many visitors come to visit the mausoleums of holy persons such as İsmail Fakirullah Hz., İbrahim Hakkı Hz., Şeyh Hamza El Kebir Hz., Şeyh Mücahit Hz., Gavsul Memduh Hz., Zemzemul Hassa Hz. (Kadın Evliya).
The name of the district was changed on 30 October 2013 by the Turkish Parliament after a change in the constitutional law, which forbid languages other than Turkish to be used for city names.
The town is mostly inhabited by Arabs, in addition to six other villages in the province and the city of Siirt.