Qodchanis (Syriac: ܩܘܕܫܐܢܣ Qudshānes, also spelt Qudshanes, Kotchanes, Qochanis or Kocanis) was the capital of Hakkari and the seat of the Assyrian bishops before 1915.
Its ruins are currently north of Hakkâri Province, near the borders of Iran and Iraq, and about 20 km north-east of the provincial capital Hakkâri, in the southeastern of modern Turkey.
The town was inhabited by Assyrians and had become the seat of the patriarchs of the Assyrian Church of the East from the 17th century until 1915 when its inhabitants were massacred at the Assyrian Genocide.
The Patriarchal church, the church of Mar Shalita was located in the village.[1]
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