Baykan
Sign in to saveBaykan (; ; ) is a municipality in the Baykan District of the Siirt Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 5,544 in 2021. Baykan is divided into the neighbourhoods of Cefan, Havel, İnönü, Karşıyaka and Yenidoğan.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Baykan
- Turkey place.province
- Siirt
- Turkey place.district
- Baykan
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- File:Weysel Qaranî.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Mosque and tomb of Uwais al-Qarani, Baykan
- Turkey place.population_total
- 5544
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_title
- Mayor
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ekrem Erdem
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 26160
- Image
- Weysel Qaranî.jpg
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- urban population
- 5544
- postal code
- 56460
- rural population
- 19050
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- Baykan
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Baykan (; ; ) is a municipality in the Baykan District of the Siirt Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 5,544 in 2021. Baykan is divided into the neighbourhoods of Cefan, Havel, İnönü, Karşıyaka and Yenidoğan.
==History== Dayr Hābil (today called Baykan) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. It is alternatively named as an Armenian village. A copy of the Gospel which contained the biography of Metropolitan Yuhanna of Mardin was sold to the church of the Monastery of Mar Abel in 1396. The Maphrian Basil Barsawma () was a monk at the Monastery of Mar Habel. Ignatius Khalaf of Maʿdan, patriarch of Antioch (), was from the village of the Monastery of Hobīl.
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