Diyarbakır

Metropolitan Municipality
	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

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

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
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 an unglazed jar from Diyarbakir, 13th century AD
Map of Diyarbekir by Matrakci Nasuh
Depiction of Diyarbakır in a 17th-century Ottoman map, possibly created by Evliya Çelebi
Diyarbekir,c.
Diyarbakır's city walls in the Sur district (2010 photo)
The Evli Beden or Ulu Beden Tower in the southern city walls, built in 1208 during the Artuqid period
Sheikh Matar Mosque with its four-legged minaret
The Syriac Orthodox St. Mary Church, Diyarbakır

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)

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[1] 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.

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