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Diyarbakir

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Di·yar·ba·kir  (d-yärb-kîr, d-yärbk-r)
A city of southeast Turkey on the Tigris River. It was a Roman colony called Amida from a.d. 230 to 363 and was finally captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1515. Population: 604,000.

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