Birecik
Sign in to saveBirecik (from the Arabic and Syriac al-Bīrah, meaning fortress) is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 912 km2, and its population is 93,866 (2023). It lies on the Euphrates.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Birecik
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Birecik, Turkey 2009-10-26.jpg
- Turkey place.image_map
- Şanlıurfa location Birecik.PNG
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Birecik District in Şanlıurfa Province
- Turkey place.province
- Şanlıurfa
- Turkey place.leader_party
- Independent
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Mehmet Begit
- Turkey place.leader_name1
- Mustafa Gürbüz
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 912
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 450
- Turkey place.population_total
- 93866
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2023
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 63400
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0414
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Birecik
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Şanlıurfa Province
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 95149
- Area
- 790
- Elevation
- 450
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Official website
- www.birecik.gov.tr
- Image
- Crusader Castle on the banks of the Euprates.jpg
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- Commons category
- Birecik
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Birecik
- native label
- Birecik
- urban population
- 94608
- rural population
- 27566
- name in kana
- ビレジク
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Climate
- Archaeology
- History
- Antiquity
- Medieval History
- Ottoman History
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- Composition
- Demographics
- Architecture
- Qanat
- Castle
- Bishopric
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Birecik (from the Arabic and Syriac al-Bīrah, meaning fortress) is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 912 km2, and its population is 93,866 (2023). It lies on the Euphrates.
Built on a limestone cliff 400 ft. high on the left/east bank of the Euphrates, "at the upper part of a reach of that river, which runs nearly north-south, and just below a sharp bend in the stream, where it follows that course after coming from a long reach flowing more from the west".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Birecik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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