Diyarbakır facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Diyarbakır
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Metropolitan Municipality
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City walls of Diyarbakır
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Country | Turkey |
Region | Southeastern Anatolia |
Province | Diyarbakır |
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• Urban | 843,460 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | EEST |
Area code(s) | (0090)+ 412 |
Diyarbakır (Kurdish: [Amed] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a city in southeast 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.
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
- Zabelle C. Boyajian, Armenian painter and writer
Images for kids
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16th-century plan of Diyarbakır by Matrakci Nasuh. The eastern half of the walled city depicted was levelled in 2015–2016 in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. The western half was being demolished in 2017.
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This 17th-century map detail shows Diyarbakır (west at top, from a 17th-century Ottoman map of the Tigris-Euphrates river system that may have been created by Evliya Çelebi)
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Diyarbakır's city walls, built by Constantius II and extended by Valentinian I between 367 and 375, stretch almost unbroken for about 6 kilometres.
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An example of Diyarbakır's historic architectural style, with masonry tiles made of indigenous dark basalt.
See also
In Spanish: Diyarbakır para niños