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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: 545,000.

Diyarbakir, Diyarbekir [diːˈjɑːbɛkɪə]
n
(Placename) a city in SE Turkey, on the River Tigris: ancient black basalt walls. Pop.: 511 640 (1997) Ancient name Amida [əˈmiːdə]


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SILVAN, Nov 17, 2009 (TUR) -- The number of wounded people rose to 25 in the boiler explosion which occurred in government office in Silvan town of the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Tuesday.
Summary: DIYARBAKIR (Cihan) -- A group of Democratic Society Party (DTP) sympathizers clashed with Turkish police in Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
Just northwest of Ulu Cami in Ziya Gokalp Sok, Cami-I Kebir quarter is a classic Diyarbakir house where the poet Cahit Sitki Taranci was born in 1910 and spent his childhood.
 
 
 
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