Diyarbakır: City in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
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. The city was badly damaged and many people died in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake. The City walls of Diyarbakır were damaged as well.
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 |
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
References
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)
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