Diyarbakır Province

Diyarbakır ( Ottoman Diyar -i Bekr دیاربکر, "Land of Bekr ," Syriac -Aramaic ܐ ܡ ܕ ( Amed ) or ܐ ܡ ܝ ܕ ( amide ), Kurdish Amed ) is a province in the southeast of Turkey, with its capital Diyarbakir. The province has an area of ​​15,355 km ² and a population of 1,528,958 (2010) people. Neighboring provinces are Malatya, Elazığ, Bingöl, Muş, Batman, Mardin, Şanlıurfa and Adiyaman. Diyarbakir is located geographically in northern Mesopotamia, and accordingly has an old and long history.

Geography

Diyarbakir is surrounded by mountains province. There is a sink, which runs from west to east and has been largely shaped by the Tigris to the center. To the north is the Taurus, which separates the regions of Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia from each other. In the southwest, on the border with the province of Şanliurfa, is 1957 m high Karacadağ, an extinct volcano. His solidified lava flows extend to the Tigris Valley.

The main river of the province is the Tigris, which, coming from Elazig, flows through the province. It flows past the town of Diyarbakir and still takes on other rivers before it flows south. In the northwest, a tributary of the Euphrates clips the province. As part of the Southeastern Anatolia project several dams were built.

Counties

The province is divided into 17 counties ( Ilce ), which are conducted every centrally by the city municipality Diyarbakır ( Büyükşehir Belediyesi Diyarbakir ):

  • Bağlar
  • Bismil
  • Cermik ( zaz. Çêrmûg )
  • Cinar
  • Çüngüş ( zaz. Sankus )
  • Dicle ( zaz. Piran)
  • Egil ( zaz. GEL)
  • Ergani ( kurd. Erxanî )
  • Hani ( zaz. Heni )
  • Hazro
  • Kayapinar
  • Kocaköy ( kurd. Karaz )
  • Kulp ( kurd. Pasur )
  • Lice ( kurd. Piran)
  • Silvan ( kurd. Silîvan )
  • Sur
  • Yenişehir

Population

The majority of the population, Kurds. The Kurds living here mostly speak Kurmanji. In the districts Cermik, Çüngüş, Egil, Dicle, Hani and parts of Lice, however, dominates the Zazaische. Of the once tens of thousands of Christian Armenians and Syrians living since the massacres only about 60 people in the provincial capital of Diyarbakir. The Christian majority Hançepek district (popularly Gavur Mah, German Ungläubigenviertel called ). Apart from this relatively small Christian minority in the provincial capital Diyarbakir and the Alevi Turks in Bismil district all the inhabitants are Sunni Muslims. Once there was a considerable number of Yazidis, who emigrated mainly to Western Europe.

Bismil possessed until a few decades, a larger population of Turkish origin. Most have moved to the western cities since at least the late 1980s or early 1990s. The villages Aralık, Bakacak, Eliaçık, Karamusa, Köseli, Reception, Türkmenhacı and Ulutürk around Bismil and Cermik still have a Turkish majority.

Famous people

  • Veli Acar, football player
  • Ahmet Arif, poet
  • Bernas Avşar, German-speaking rapper
  • Oya Aydoğan, Actress
  • Osman Baydemir, current mayor of Diyarbakir
  • Mehmed Emin Bozarslan, writer
  • Mihran Dabag, a political scientist and sociologist
  • Abdussamed Diyarbekri, Ottoman historian
  • Emrah, singer and actor
  • Ziya Gokalp, political scientist
  • Nazmi Kırık, actor
  • Mahsun Kırmızıgül, singer
  • Kevork Malikyan, actor
  • Mıgırdiç Margosyan, writer
  • Süleyman Nazif, Governor and journalist
  • Faik ALi Ozansoy, governor and poet
  • Coşkun Sabah, an oud player
  • Samuel Agop Uluçyan, actor
  • Leyla Zana, politician
  • Rupen Zartaryan, writer and genocide victims
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