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Diyarbakır
Metropolitan municipality
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Coordinates: 37.91°N 40.24°E
Country	Turkey
Region	Southeastern Anatolia
Province	Diyarbakır
Government
• Mayor	Münir Karaloğlu  [tr ] (trustee )
Area
• Metropolitan municipality	15,058 km2(5,814 sq mi)
• Urban	2,410 km2 (930 sq mi)
• Metro	2,410 km2 (930 sq mi)
Elevation	675 m (2,215 ft)
Population  (2021 estimation)[1]
• Metropolitan municipality	1,791,373
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
• Urban	1,129,218
• Urban density	470/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
• Metro	1,129,218
• Metro density	470/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3  (TRT )
Postal code	21x xx
Area code	412
Licence plate	21
Website	[link removed by eBay]

Diyarbakır  (Turkish pronunciation:  [diˈjar.bakɯr] ) is a city in Diyarbakır Province  and the largest Kurdish -majority city in Turkey .[2]

Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris  river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress , it is the administrative capital of the Diyarbakır Province  of southeastern Turkey . It is the second-largest city in the Southeastern Anatolia Region . As of December 2021, the Metropolitan Province population was 1,791,373 of whom 1,129,218 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of the 4 urban districts (Bağlar , Kayapınar , Sur  and Yenişehir ).

Diyarbakır has been a main focal point of the conflict  between the Turkish state and various Kurdish  separatist groups, and is seen by many Kurds as the de facto capital of Kurdistan .[3] [4]  The city was intended to become the capital of an independent Kurdistan  following the Treaty of Sèvres , but this was disregarded following subsequent political developments.[5] [6] [7]

Contents

• 1 Names and etymology
• 2 History
  • 2.1 Antiquity
  • 2.2 Ecclesiastical history
  • 2.3 Middle Ages
  • 2.4 Safavids and Ottomans
  • 2.5 Republic of Turkey
• 3 Sports
• 4 Politics
• 5 Economy
• 6 Demographics
  • 6.1 Demographic history
    • 6.1.1 Present day
• 7 Culture
  • 7.1 Cuisine
• 8 Main sights
  • 8.1 Medieval mosques and medreses
  • 8.2 Churches
  • 8.3 Museums
  • 8.4 Other historical buildings
• 9 Climate
• 10 Notable people born in the city
• 11 See also
• 12 References
• 13 Sources
• 14 Further reading
• 15 External links

Names and etymology [ edit ]

The name Diyarbakır  derives from the Arabic  The abode of Bakr , which was named after the Arab tribe of Banu Bakr  who settled the wider region of Diyar Bakr  during the 6th century. Some interpretations claim that the modern name Diyarbakır  means Land of Bakir  and derives from the Armenian  name Տիգրանակերտ  (Tigranakert ).[citation needed ] But as mentioned by T. A. Sinclar, Tigranocerta is in the valley of the Garzan river.[8]  Amit  is found in Empire of Trebizond  official documents from 1358.[9]

Later on, the city became known as the Diyar Bakr  ("landholdings  of the Bakr tribe", in Arabic : ديار بكر , Diyar Bakr ).[10] [11]  In November 1937, Turkish  President Atatürk  visited the city and, after expressing uncertainty on the exact etymology of the city, in December of the same year ordered that it be renamed "Diyarbakır", which means "land of copper" in Turkish after the abundant resources of copper  around the city.[12]  This was one of the early examples of the Turkification  process of non-Turkish place names, in which non-Turkish (Kurdish, Armenian, Arabic and other) geographical names were changed to Turkish alternatives.[13] [14]

The modern Armenian name of the city is Տիգրանակերտ  (Tigranakert) and Amed  in Kurdish .[15] [16]  Moreover, the Syriac  name is ܐܡܝܕ  (Āmīd).[17]

History [ edit ]

Main article: History of Diyarbakır 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.

Antiquity [ edit ]

People have inhabited the area around Diyarbakr since the Stone Age and the area continues to be inhabited.

The first major civilization to establish itself in the region of Diyarbakır was the Hurrian  kingdom of the Mitanni . It was then ruled by a succession of nearly every polity that controlled Upper Mesopotamia , including the Arameans , Assyrians , Urartu , Armenians , Achaemenid Persians , Medes , Seleucids , and Parthians .[18]  The Roman Republic  gained control of the city in 66 BC, by which stage it was named "Amida".[19]  In 359, Shapur II of Persia  captured Amida  after a siege of 73 days.[20]

According to the Synecdemus  of Hierocles , as Amida, Diyarbakır was the major city of the Roman province  of Mesopotamia .[21]  It was the episcopal see  of the Christian diocese  of Mesopotamia.[21]  Ancient texts record that ancient Amida had an amphitheatre , thermae  (public baths), warehouses, a tetrapylon  monument, and Roman aqueducts  supplying and distributing water.[22]  The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus  was serving in the late Roman army  during the Siege of Amida  by the Sasanian Empire  under Shapur II  (r. 309–379 ), and described the successful siege in detail.[22]  Amida was then enlarged by refugees from ancient Nisibis (Nusaybin ), which the emperor Jovian  (r. 363–364 ) was forced to evacuate and cede to Shapur's Persians after the defeat of his predecessor Julian's Persian War , becoming the main Roman stronghold in the region.[22]  The chronicle  attributed to Joshua the Stylite  describes the capture of Amida by the Persians under Kavad I (r. 488–531 ) in the second Siege of Amida  in 502–503, part of the Anastasian War .[22]

Either the emperor Anastasius Dicorus  (r. 491–518 ) or the emperor Justinian the Great  (r. 527–565 ) rebuilt the walls of Amida, a feat of defensive architecture praised by the Greek historian Procopius .[22]  As recorded by the works of John of Ephesus , Zacharias Rhetor , and Procopius, the Romans and Persians continued to contest the area, and in the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628  Amida was captured and held by the Persians for twenty-six years, being recovered in 628 for the Romans by the emperor Heraclius  (r. 610–641 ), who also founded a church in the city on his return to Constantinople  (Istanbul ) from Persia the following year.[21] [22]

Ecclesiastical history [ edit ]

Syriac Christianity  took hold in the region between the 1st and 4th centuries AD, particularly amongst the Assyrians of the city. The Byzantine Emperor  Theodosius II  (408–450) divided the Roman province  of Mesopotamia  into two, and made Amida the capital of Mesopotamia Prima, and thereby also the metropolitan see  for all the province's bishoprics .[23]

At some stage, Amida became a see of the Armenian Church . The bishops who held the see in 1650 and 1681 were in full communion  with the Holy See , and in 1727 Peter Derboghossian sent his profession of faith to Rome. He was succeeded by two more bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church , Eugenius and Ioannes of Smyrna , the latter of whom died in Constantinople  in 1785. After a long vacancy, three more bishops followed. The diocese had some 5,000 Armenian Catholics in 1903,[24] but it lost most of its population in the 1915 Armenian genocide . The last diocesan bishop  of the see, Andreas Elias Celebian, was killed with some 600 of his flock in the summer of 1915.[25] [26] [27] [28]

An eparchy for the local members of the Syriac Catholic Church  was established in 1862. Persecution of Christians in the Ottoman Empire  during the First World War brought an end to the existence of both these Syrian residential sees.[25] [26] [29] [30]

Middle Ages [ edit ]

See also: Diyar Bakr

In 639, as part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant  during the early Arab–Byzantine wars , Amida fell to the armies of the Rashidun Caliphate  led by Iyad ibn Ghanm , and the Great Mosque of Amida was constructed afterwards in the city's centre, possibly on the site of the Heraclian Church of Saint Thomas.[21] [22]  There were as many as five Christian monasteries  in the city, including the Zuqnin Monastery  and several ancient churches mentioned by John of Ephesus.[22]  One of these, the Church of the Virgin Mary , remains the city's cathedral  and the see of the bishop of Diyarbakır  in the Syriac Orthodox Church .[22]  Another ancient church, the Church of Mar Cosmas, was seen by the British explorer Gertrude Bell  in 1911 but was destroyed in 1930, while the former Church of Saint George , in the walled citadel, may originally have been built for Muslim use or for the Church of the East .[22]

The city was part of the Umayyad Caliphate  and then the Abbasid Caliphate , but then came under more local rule until its recovery in 899 by forces loyal to the caliph al-Mu'tadid  (r. 892–902 ) before falling under the sway of first the Hamdanid dynasty  and then the Buyid dynasty , followed by a period of control by the Marwanids . The city was taken by the Seljuks  in 1085 and by the Ayyubids  in 1183. Ayyubid control lasted until the Mongol invasions of Anatolia , and the Mongol capture of the city in 1260. Between the Mongol occupation and conquest by the Safavid dynasty  of Iran, the Kara Koyunlu  and Aq Qoyunlu  – two Turkoman  confederations – were in control of the city in succession. Diyarbakır was conquered by the Ottoman Empire  in 1514 by Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha , in the reign of the sultan Selim I  (r. 1512–1520 ). Mohammad Khan Ustajlu , the Safavid governor of Diyarbakir, was evicted from the city and killed in the following Battle of Chaldiran  in 1514.[31]

Safavids and Ottomans [ edit ]

See also: Diyarbekir Eyalet  and Diyarbekir Vilayet Page from Abridged  Bible  created in Diyarbakır in 1601 for future Co-Catholicos of All Armenians  Serapion of Edessa . Chester Beatty Library 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 )

The Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire  saw it expand into Western Armenia  and all but the eastern regions of Kurdistan  at the expense of the Safavids. From the early 16th century, the city and the wider region was the source of intrigue between the Safavids and the Ottoman Empire , both of whom sought the support of the Kurdish chieftains around Idris Bitlisi .[31]  It was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1514 in the campaigns of Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha , under the rule of Sultan Selim I . Mohammad Khan Ustajlu , the Safavid Governor of Diyarbakir, was evicted from the city and killed in the following Battle of Chaldiran  in 1514.[31]

Following their victory, the Ottomans established the Diyarbekir Eyalet  with its administrative centre in Diyarbakır. The Eyalet of Diyarbakır corresponded to today's Turkish Kurdistan , a rectangular area between the Lake Urmia  to Palu  and from the southern shores of Lake Van  to Cizre  and the beginnings of the Syrian desert , although its borders saw some changes over time. The city was an important military base for controlling the region and at the same time a thriving city noted for its craftsmen, producing glass and metalwork. For example, the doors of Rumi 's tomb in Konya  were made in Diyarbakır, as were the gold and silver decorated doors of the tomb of Ebu Hanife  in Baghdad . Ottoman rule was confirmed by the 1555 Peace of Amasya  which followed the Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555) .

Diyarbekir, c. 1900

Concerned with independent-mindedness of the Kurdish  principalities, the Ottomans sought to curb their influence and bring them under the control of the central government in Constantinople . However, removal from power of these hereditary principalities led to more instability in the region from the 1840s onwards. In their place, sufi  sheiks and religious orders rose to prominence and spread their influence throughout the region. One of the prominent Sufi leaders was Shaikh Ubaidalla  Nahri , who began a revolt in the region between Lakes Van  and Urmia . The area under his control covered both Ottoman and Qajar  territories. Shaikh Ubaidalla is regarded as one of the earliest proponents of Kurdish nationalism . In a letter to a British  Vice-Consul, he declared: "The Kurdish nation is a people apart... we want our affairs to be in our hands."

In 1895 an estimated 25,000 Armenians  and Assyrians  were massacred  in Diyarbekir Vilayet , including in the city.[32]  At the turn of the 19th century, the Christian population of the city was mainly made up of Armenians and Syriac Orthodox Christians .[33]  The city was also a site of ethnic cleansing  during the 1915 Armenian  and Assyrian genocide ; nearly 150,000 were expelled from the city to the death marches in the Syrian  desert.[34]

Republic of Turkey [ edit ]

Diyarbakır's city walls, built by Constantius II  and extended by Valentinian I  between 367 and 375, stretch almost unbroken for about 6 kilometres. Keçi Burcu, the Goat Tower, a section of the city wall of Diyarbakir

In January 1928, Diyarbakır became the center of the First Inspectorate-General , a regional subdivision for an area containing the provinces of Hakkari , Van , Şırnak , Mardin , Siirt , Bitlis  and Şanlıurfa . In a reorganization of the provinces in 1952, Diyarbakır city was made the administrative capital of the Diyarbakır Province . In 1993, Diyarbakir was established as a Metropolitan Municipality.[35]  Its districts are Baĝlar , Bismil , Ergani , Hazro , Kayapinar , Çermik , Çinar , Eğil , Dicle , Kulp , Kocaköy , Lice , Silvan , Sur , Yenişehir , Hani  and Çüngüş .[36]

Diyarbakır grew from a population of 30,000 in the 1930s to 65,000 by 1956, to 140,000 by 1970, to 400,000 by 1990,[37]  and eventually swelled to about 1.5 million by 1997.[38]  During the 1980s and 1990s, at the peak of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict , the population of the city grew dramatically, due to the thousands of Kurdish villages depopulated by Turkey .

The American-Turkish Pirinçlik  Air Force Base near Diyarbakır, was operational from 1956–1997.

Diyarbakır has seen much violence in recent years, involving Turkish security forces, the Kurdistan Workers Party  (PKK), and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant  (ISIL).[39] [40] [41]  Between 8 November 2015 and 15 May 2016 large parts of Sur were destroyed  in fighting between the Turkish military  and the PKK.[42]

A 2018 report by Arkeologlar Derneği İstanbul found that, since 2015, 72% of the city's historic Sur district had been destroyed through demolition and redevelopment, and that laws designed to protect historic monuments had been ignored. They found that the city's "urban regeneration" policy was one of demolition and redevelopment rather than one of repairing cultural assets damaged during the recent civil conflict, and because of that many registered historic buildings had been completely destroyed. The extent of the loss of non-registered historic structures is unknown because any historic building fragments revealed during the demolition of modern structures were also demolished.[43]  As of 2021, large parts of the city and district have been restored and government officials are looking towards tourism again.[44] [45] [46]

Sports [ edit ]

The most notable football  clubs of the city are Diyarbakırspor  (established 1968) and Amed SK  (established 1990),[47]  with Deniz Naki  being one of the most notable footballers from the city. The women's football team Amed SFK  were promoted at the end of the 2016–17 Turkish Women's Second Football League  season to the Women's First League .[48]

Politics [ edit ]

In the 2014 local elections , Gültan Kışanak  and Fırat Anlı  of the Peace and Democracy Party  (BDP) were elected co-mayors of Diyarbakır. However, on 25 October 2016, both were detained by Turkish authorities "on thinly supported charges of being a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party  (PKK)".[49]  The Turkish government ordered a general internet blackout after the arrest.[50]  Nevertheless, on 26 October, several thousand demonstrators at Diyarbakir city hall demanded the mayors' release.[49]  Some days later, the Turkish government appointed an unelected state trustee as the mayor.[51]  In November, public prosecutors demanded a 230-year prison sentence for Kışanak.[52]

In January 2017, the unelected state trustee appointed by the Turkish government ordered the removal of the Assyrian  sculpture of a mythological winged bull from the town hall, which had been erected by the BDP mayors to commemorate the Assyrian history of the town and its still resident Assyrian minority. All Kurdish language street signs were also removed, alongside the shutting down of organisations concerned with Kurdish language and culture, removal of Kurdish names from public parks, and removal of Kurdish cultural monuments and linguistic symbols.[53] [54]

In the 2019 municipal elections , Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı  of the HDP  party was elected mayor of Diyarbakir.[55]  In August 2019 he was dismissed and subsequently sentenced to 9 years and 4 months imprisonment accused of supporting terrorism as part of a government crackdown against politicians of the Kurdish  HDP  party; the Turkish state appointed Münir Karaloğlu  in his place.[56]  Other Kurdish mayors in Kurdish cities across the region also suffered a similar fate, with Turkish President Erdogan  vowing to remove any future Kurdish mayors too.[57] [58]  Protests against the decision arose which were suppressed by the Turkish police with the use of water cannons; some protestors were killed.[59] [60] [61]  Diyarbakir's prison  has become home to many political prisoners , mainly Kurdish activists and politicians  accused of terrorism charges by the Turkish state. Inmates have been subject to torture, rape, humiliation, beating, murder and other abuses.[62]

Economy [ edit ]

Historically, Diyarbakır produced wheat  and sesame .[63] [64]  They would preserve the wheat in warehouses , with coverings of straw  and twigs from licorice  trees. This system would allow the wheat to be preserved for up to ten years.[63]  In the late 19th and early 20th century, Diyarbakır exported raisins , almonds , and apricots  to Europe.[64]  Angora goats  were raised, and wool and mohair  was exported from Diyarbakır. Merchants would also come from Egypt , Istanbul , and Syria , to purchase goats and sheep .[65]  Honey was also produced, but not so much exported, but used by locals. Sericulture  was observed in the area, too.[66]

Prior to World War I, Diyarbakır had an active copper  industry, with six mines. Three were active, with two being owned by locals and the third being owned by the Turkish government. Tenorite  was the primary type of copper mined. It was mined by hand by Kurds. A large portion of the ore was exported to England. The region also produced iron , gypsum , coal , chalk , lime , jet , and quartz , but primarily for local use.[67]

The city is served by Diyarbakır Airport  and Diyarbakır railway station . In 1935 the railway between Elazığ  and Diyarbakır was inaugurated.[68]

Demographics [ edit ]

Demographic history [ edit ]

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At the turn of the 19th century, the Christian population of the city was mainly made up of Armenians and Assyrians.[33]  The Assyrian and Armenian presence dates to antiquity.[69]  There was also a small Jewish community in the city.[70]  According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition  from 1911, the population numbered 38 thousand, almost half being Christian and consisting of Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Turkomans, Armenians, Chaldeans, Jacobites, and a few Greeks.[71]  During the Governorship of Mehmed Reshid  in the Vilayet of Diyarbakır , the Armenian population of Diyarbakir was resettled and exterminated.[72]

Present day [ edit ]

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After World War II, as the Kurdish population moved from the villages and mountains to urban centres, Diyarbakir's Kurdish population continued to grow.[73]

According to a November 2006 survey by the Sûr Municipality, 72% of the inhabitants of the municipality use Kurdish  most often in their daily speech due to the overwhelming Kurdish majority in the city, followed by minorities of Assyrian , Armenian  and Turkish .[74]

There are some Alevi Turkmen  villages around Diyarbakır's old city , but there are no official reports about their population numbers.[70] [75]

There have been attempts by Turkish lawmakers to deny Diyarbakır's Kurdish majority identity,[76]  with Turkey's Education Ministry  releasing a school book named "Our City, Diyarbakir" ("Şehrimiz Diyarbakır"  in Turkish ) on Diyarbakir Province  in which it claims that a Turkish  similar to that spoken in Baku  is spoken in the city along with regional languages without any mention of Kurdish.[77] [74] [78] [79]  Critics link this to a general trend towards anti-Kurdish sentiment  in Turkey.[80] [76] [81]

Culture [ edit ]

There is local jewelry making and other craftwork. Folk dancing to the drum and zurna  (pipe) are a part of weddings and celebrations in the area. The Diyarbakir Municipality Theatre was founded in 1990, and had to close its doors in 1995.[82]  In was re-opened in 1999,[82]  under Mayor Osman Baydemir . It was closed down in 2016 after the dismissal of the mayor in 2016.[83] [84]  The Municipality City Theatre also performed plays in the Kurdish language .[83] [85]

Cuisine [ edit ]

Diyarbakır's cuisine includes lamb dishes which use spices such as black pepper , sumac  and coriander ; rice, bulgur  and butter. Local dishes include Meftune, lamb meat and vegetables with garlic and sumac, and Kaburga Dolması, baked lamb's ribs stuffed with rice, almonds and spices.[86] Watermelons are grown locally and there is an annual Watermelon Festival.[87]

Main sights [ edit ]

Sheikh Matar Mosque  with its four-legged minaret An example of Diyarbakır's historic architectural style, with masonry tiles made of indigenous dark basalt .

The core of Diyarbakır is surrounded by an almost intact set of high walls of black basalt forming a 5.5 km (3.4 mi) circle around the old city. There are four gates into the old city and 82 watch-towers on the walls, which were built in antiquity and restored and extended by the Roman emperor  Constantius II  in 349. The area inside the walls is known as the Sur district; before its recent demolition and redevelopment this district had 599 registered historical buildings.[43]

Medieval mosques and medreses [ edit ]

• Great Mosque of Diyarbakır  built by the Seljuk Turkish  Sultan Malik Shah  in the 11th century. The mosque, one of the oldest in Turkey, is constructed in alternating bands of black basalt and white limestone (The same patterning is used in the 16th century Deliler Han Madrassah, which is now a hotel). The adjoining Mesudiye Medresesi /Medreseya Mesûdiyeyê  was built at the same time, as was another prayer-school in the city, Zinciriye Medresesi /Medreseya Zincîriyeyê .
• Behram Pasha Mosque  (Beharampaşa Camii /Mizgefta Behram Paşa ) – an Ottoman  mosque built in 1572 by the governor of Diyarbakır, Behram Pasha , noted for the well-constructed arches at the entrance.
• Sheikh Matar Mosque  with Dört Ayaklı Minare /Mizgefta Çarling  (the Four-legged Minaret ) – built by Kasim Khan of the Aq Qoyunlu .
• Fatihpaşa Camii /Mizgefta Fetih Paşa  – built in 1520 by Diyarbakır's first Ottoman  governor, Bıyıklı Mehmet Paşa ("the moustachioed Mehmet pasha"). The city's earliest Ottoman building, it is decorated with fine tilework.
• Hazreti Süleyman Mosque /Mizgefta Hezretî Silêman  (1155–1169) Süleyman son of Halid Bin Velid , who died capturing the city from the Arabs, is buried here along with his companions.
• Hüsrevpaşa Camii /Mizgefta Husrev Paşa  – the mosque of the second Ottoman governor, 1512–1528. Originally the building was intended to be a school (medrese )
• İskender Paşa Camii /Mizgefta Îskender Paşa  – a mosque of an Ottoman governor, in black and white stone, built in 1551.
• Melek Ahmet Camii /Melek Ahmed Paşa  a 16th-century mosque with tiled prayer-niche and for the double stairway up the minaret.
• Nebii Camii /Mizgefta Pêxember  – an Aq Qoyunlu  mosque, a single-domed stone construction from the 16th century. Nebi Camii  means "the mosque of the prophet" and is named for the inscriptions in honour of the prophet on its minaret .
• Safa Camii /Mizgefta Palo  – built in the middle of the 15th century under Uzun Hasan, ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu  (White Sheep Turkomans) tribe[88]  and restored in Ottoman time in 1532.

Churches [ edit ]

The Syriac Orthodox  St. Mary Church, Diyarbakır . St. Giragos Armenian Church .

• St. Giragos Armenian Church  – first built in 1519, the current structure is from 1883, and was recently restored after a long period of disuse.[89]
• The Syriac Orthodox  Church of Our Lady  (Syriac : ܐ ܕܝܠܕܬ ܐܠܗܐ  `Idto d-Yoldat Aloho , Turkish : Meryemana kilisesi ), was first constructed as a pagan temple in the 1st century BC. The current construction dates back to the 3rd century, has been restored many times, and is still in use as a place of worship today.[90]
• Mar Petyun (St. Anthony) Chaldean Catholic Church , built in 1681.[89]
• Surp Sarkis Chaldean Church[91]
• St. Marys Cathedral

Museums [ edit ]

• The Archaeological Museum  contains artifacts from the neolithic  period, through the Early Bronze Age , Assyrian , Urartu , Roman , Byzantine , Artuqids , Seljuk Turk , Aq Qoyunlu , and Ottoman Empire  periods.
• Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum  – the home of the late poet and a classic example of a traditional Diyarbakır home.
• The birthplace of poet Ziya Gökalp  – preserved as a museum to his life and works.
• Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library

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