The sub-district of Nochiya is a mountainess area with possibly the most spectacular natural beauty in all of southern Turkey, it lies very close to the Iraq-Iran borders and at the time contained some 40 Assyrian and Kurdish villages.
Secondly, it was the home of an important Kurdish family known as the Sheikh Obaidulla family who were descendants of the prophet Muhammad that lead the first Kurdistani National Revolution in 1880 against the Persians.