Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır (Kurdish: [Amed] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a city in southeastern Turkey. It is one of the largest cities in southeast Turkey and is on the banks of the Tigris river. It has 843,460 people (2010). The city was known as the Diyar Bakr ("landholdings of the Bakr tribe") and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ordered that the city be renamed "Diyarbakır", which means land of copper in Turkish.[1] The city was badly damaged and many people died in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake. The City walls of Diyarbakır were damaged as well.
Metropolitan Municipality | |
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| Coordinates: Coordinates: 37°55′N 40°14′E / 37.91°N 40.24°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Region | Southeastern Anatolia |
| Province | Diyarbakır |
| Government | |
| • Trustee | Münir Karaloğlu |
| • Governor | Münir Karaloğlu |
| Population | |
| • Urban | 843,460 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST |
Notable people born in the city
- Abdülkadir Aksu, former interior minister
- Aziz Yıldırım, President of Fenerbahçe S.K. sports club
- Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, poet
- Mehmed Emin Bozarslan, writer
- Songül Öden, actress
- Süleyman Nazif, poet
- Ziya Gökalp, sociologist and writer (the Ziyagökalp district of the city is named after him, as well as many streets and schools)
- Mıgırdiç Margosyan, writer
- Coşkun Sabah, musician
Diyarbakır Media
Kurkh stele of Shalmaneser III in the British Museum, 9th century BC
- The Garden of Eden (CBL Arm 551, ff.2v-3r).jpg
Page from abridged Bible created in Diyarbakır in 1601 by the Serapion of Edessa for the future Co-Catholicos of All Armenians, now at the Chester Beatty Library
- Fragment of a jar, unglazed. 13th century CE. From Diyarbakir. Museum of Islamic Art (Tiled Kiosk), Istanbul, Turkey.jpg
Fragment of an unglazed jar from Diyarbakir, 13th century AD
- Matrakci Diyarbekir.jpg
Map of Diyarbekir by Matrakci Nasuh
- 1671 Diyarbakır from Ottoman map of Tigris and Euphrates 2012 Kurşun Z Fig2.jpg
Depiction of Diyarbakır in a 17th-century Ottoman map, possibly created by Evliya Çelebi
- Diyarbekir,c.
- Diyarbakir walls.JPG
Diyarbakır's city walls in the Sur district (2010 photo)
- Diyarbakir city walls DSCF9385.jpg
The Evli Beden or Ulu Beden Tower in the southern city walls, built in 1208 during the Artuqid period
- Minareya Çarling Amed 2010.JPG
Sheikh Matar Mosque with its four-legged minaret
References
- ↑ See Üngör, Uğur (2011), The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 244. ISBN 0-19-960360-X.
Other websites
- The Governorship of Diyarbakır Archived 2008-11-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
- The Metropolitan Municipality of Diyarbakır (in Kurdish, Turkish, and English)
