Diyarbakır Province
Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Infobox Turkey place Diyarbakır Province (Template:Langx; Template:Langx;<ref>Zazaca -Türkçe Sözlük, R. Hayıg-B. Werner</ref> Template:Langx)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> is a province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey. Its area is 15,101 km2,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and its population is 1,804,880 (2022).<ref name=tuik>Template:Cite web</ref> The provincial capital is the city of Diyarbakır. The Kurdish majority province is part of Turkish Kurdistan.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
History
It has been home to many civilisations and the surrounding area including itself is home to many Mesolithic era stone carvings and artifacts. The province has been ruled by the Akkadians, Hurrians, Mittani, Medes, Hittites, Armenians, Arameans, Neo-Babylonians, Achaemenids, Greeks, Romans, Parthians, Byzantium, Sassanids, Arabs, Seljuk Empire, Mongol Empire, Safavid dynasty, Marwanids, and Ayyubids.
Administrative history
In June 1927, the Law 1164 was passed<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> allowing the creation of Inspectorates-General (Turkish: Umumi Müffetişlik).<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref>
The Diyarbakır province was therefore included in the First Inspectorate General (Template:Langx), which was created on the 1 January 1928 and also included Hakkâri, Siirt, Van, Mardin, Bitlis, Sanlıurfa, and Elaziğ.<ref name=":02">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The Inspectorate-General was governed by an Inspector General, who governed with a wide-ranging authority over civilian, juridical and military matters.<ref name=":1" /> The office of the Inspector General was dissolved in 1952 during the government of the Democrat Party.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
During the 1930s, several place-names in the province were renamed into names which denoted a Turkish origin as part of the nationalist Turkification policy of the Kemalist government.<ref>Üngör, Uğur (2011), The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913–1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 244. Template:ISBN.</ref> Travel to Diyarbakır province was banned for foreign citizens until 1965.<ref name=":02" />
Modern history
In the 1975 Lice earthquake a Template:M 6.7 struck the town of Lice. The town was re-established about Template:Convert south of its original location.
From 1987 to 2002, Diyarbakır Province was part of the OHAL (state of emergency) region which was declared to counter the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and governed by a so-called Supergovernor who got invested with additional powers than a normal Governor. In 1987 he was given the power to relocate and resettle whole villages, settlements and hamlets.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> In December 1990 with the Decree No. 430, the supergovernor and the provincial governors in the OHAL region received immunity against any legal prosecution in connections with actions they made due to the powers they received with the Decree No. 430.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Archaeology
Archaeologists headed by the vice-rector of Dicle University, professor Ahmet Tanyıldız, have claimed to discover the graves of the Seljuk Sultan of Rum Kilij Arslan I, who defeated the Crusaders. They also revealed his daughter Saide Hatun's burial in Silvan. Researchers dug 2 meters deep across a 35-square-meter area and focused their works on two gravesites in Orta Çeşme Park.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Districts
Diyarbakır province is divided into 17 districts:Template:Columns-listTemplate:Clear
Population
| Assyrian and Armenian population in Diyarbakır Province in 1915-1916<ref>Gaunt, David. Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2006, p. 433.</ref> | |||||
| Sect | Before World War I | Disappeared (killed) | After World War I | ||
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| Armenians | Gregorians (Apostolic) | 60,000 | 58,000 (97%) | 2,000 | |
| Armenian Catholics | 12,500 | 11,500 (92%) | 1,000 | ||
| Assyrians | Chaldean Catholics | 11,120 | 10,010 (90%) | 1,110 | |
| Syriac Catholic | 5,600 | 3,450 (62%) | 2,150 | ||
| Syriac Orthodox | 84,725 | 60,725 (72%) | 24,000 | ||
| Protestants | 725 | 500 (69%) | 2,150 | ||
See also
References
External links
- Template:In lang Pictures of the capital of this province
- Template:In lang Diyarbakir Weather Forecast Information Template:Webarchive
- Template:In lang Historical Armenian presence in Diyarbakir Province
- Tourism information is available in English at the Southeastern Anatolian Promotion Project site.
- Template:In lang Diyarbakir Live News
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