According to the census carried out by the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, 4281 Armenians inhabited the "kaza" of Jazirat Ibn ʿUmar in 1913, with only one functioning church: 2716 Armenians in Jazirat Ibn ʿUmar itself and eleven nearby villages, and 1565 Armenians were nomadic. Prior to the First World War, the "kaza" of Jazirat Ibn ʿUmar contained 994 Syriac Orthodox (Jacobite) families in 26 villages, according to the report submitted to the Paris Peace Conference by the Syriac Orthodox Church in July 1919.