Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır | |
|---|---|
Metropolitan Municipality | |
 City walls of Diyarbakır | |
| 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 |
| Area code | (0090)+ 412 |
Diyarbakır (Kurdish: Amed) 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.
Notable people born in the city
[change | change source]- 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
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 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
[change | change source]- The Governorship of Diyarbakır Archived 2008-11-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
- The Metropolitan Municipality of Diyarbakır (in Kurdish, Turkish, and English)
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Geographic | |
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
Cover photo is available under {{::mainImage.info.license.name || 'Unknown'}} license.
Cover photo is available under {{::mainImage.info.license.name || 'Unknown'}} license.
Credit:
(see original file).
