Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır is a city of the south-east of the Turkey of approximately 589.000 inhabitants (2003), Préfecture of the Province of the same name. According to not-official estimates, the total population of the city, if one includes the Gecekondu , would have already exceeded the million inhabitants since several years.

History

Called Amida in Antiquity, it was the capital of the kingdom araméen of Study Bureau-Zamani starting from XIIIe century before J. - C., then of a Kurdish kingdom called Cordyène or Cardyène .

The area became thereafter a province of the Roman Empire, and Amida was a religious center related to the syriaque-orthodoxe Patriarcat of Antioche.

The Kurdish dynasty of the Marwanides directed the area of Diyarbakir of 11th at the 12th century. After the Battle of Manzikert, the city passed under the authority of Turkish Oghouzes.

It was disputed by the Houlagides and the Ayyoubides during more than one century before being taken by the states turcmenes of Kara Koyunlu (the Black sheep ), then of Ak Koyunlu (the White Mouton ).

Diyarbakır was integrated into the Ottoman Empire in 1534, and became in 1864 the chief town of the Vilayet of Diyarbekir.

During the First World War, the city was emptied of its syriaque and Armenian population of the city, before being occupied by the French troops with the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

External bonds

Ein Monat in Diyarbakir - Reports on Diyarbakır
Official site of the municipality of Diyarbakır
Official site of the prefecture of Diyarbakır

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