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Illustration of Tigris Bridge, Diyarbakır

A day in Diyarbakır

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The banner is an illustration of Tigris Bridge, one of the stops on this route, not a photograph.

This route is not an official itinerary; it is a suggestion compiled from sourced records in this province. Each stop has its own page with its own sources.

Travel times between stops are not shown. Where both stops have coordinates, the straight-line distance between them is given and labelled as such.

Every stop on this route has coordinates, so the day groups were built geographically.

Day 1

  1. 1Illustration of Tigris Bridge, Diyarbakır
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    Tigris Bridge

    The Tigris Bridge crosses the river in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. Because it has ten openings local people call it the Ten-Eyed Bridge, and because it stood on the old road to Silvan some sources call it the Silvan Bridge. It lies three kilometres from the city centre,…

  2. 1 km as the crow flies

    2Illustration of Saint George Church, Diyarbakır
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    Saint George Church

    The church of Saint George, also called the Kara Papaz church, stands at the north-east corner of the inner citadel of Diyarbakır, on the high rocks looking down to the Tigris. This position makes it the only church not standing within the walled city.

  3. <1 km as the crow flies

    3Illustration of Inner Castle, Diyarbakır
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    Inner Castle

    The İçkale is the inner castle of Diyarbakır, the seat of government here without a break until recent years, and Süleyman the Magnificent enlarged it. In the third millennium BC the region was held by the Assyrians, and the first known name of Diyarbakır appears in the Assyrian texts as Amidi.

  4. <1 km as the crow flies

    4Illustration of Nebi Mosque, Diyarbakır
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    Nebi Mosque

    The Nebi Mosque stands in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. It was built in the fifteenth century under the Akkoyunlu and is also known as the Mosque of the Prophet.

  5. <1 km as the crow flies

    5Illustration of Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı House Ethnography Museum, Diyarbakır
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    Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı House Ethnography Museum

    The house where the poet Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was born and spent his childhood was built in 1733. It carries all the features of the traditional domestic architecture of Diyarbakır: four wings ranged around a central courtyard, a ground floor and one storey above, built entirely…

  6. <1 km as the crow flies

    6Illustration of Surp Giragos Armenian Church, Diyarbakır
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    Surp Giragos Armenian Church

    The Surp Giragos Armenian Church, also known as the Church of Saint Kyriakos, stands in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. It is regarded as the largest church of the Armenian community in the Middle East, and it was expropriated by the government in 2016.

  7. <1 km as the crow flies

    7Illustration of Ziya Gökalp Museum, Diyarbakır
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    Ziya Gökalp Museum

    The Ziya Gökalp Museum is the house in which the sociologist and writer Ziya Gökalp was born, on Gökalp Sokak off Melik Ahmet Caddesi in Diyarbakır. It opened as a museum on 23 March 1956 and shows collections of his personal belongings and papers together with ethnographic…

  8. 1 km as the crow flies

    8Illustration of Diyarbakır Castle and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape, Diyarbakır
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    Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape

    The walls of Diyarbakır enclose the old city in the Sur district, ringing it in an oval roughly five kilometres round. They are held to be, after the Great Wall of China, among the longest, widest and most solidly built defensive walls in the world. The circuit has two parts,…

Sources

This route is not an official itinerary; it is a suggestion compiled from sourced records in this province. Each stop has its own page with its own sources.

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