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Çüngüş

Çüngüş (, , ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 512 km2, and its population is 10,720 (2022).

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Locality: Çüngüş
Country: Türkiye

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Key facts

Turkey place.type: metro district
Turkey place.name: Çüngüş
Turkey place.image_skyline: Çüngüş manzara 2014-03-19 19-20.jpg
Turkey place.image_map: Diyarbakır location Çüngüş.png
Turkey place.map_caption: Map showing Çüngüş District in Diyarbakır Province
Turkey place.province: Diyarbakır
Turkey place.leader_party: AKP
Turkey place.leader_name: Ali Suat Akmeşe
Turkey place.area_total_km2: 512
Turkey place.elevation_m: 1049
Turkey place.population_total: 10720
Turkey place.population_as_of: 2022
Turkey place.postal_code

Wikidata facts

Instance of: town
Country: Ottoman Empire
Continent: Asia
Population: +11927
Elevation: +1049
Time zone: time in Turkey
Body of water: Atatürk Reservoir
Image: Çüngüş manzara 2014-03-19 19-20.jpg

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Çüngüş (, , ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 512 km2, and its population is 10,720 (2022).

Çüngüş was an Armenian bishopric an Armenian Church was constructed in 1841. It was a large and flourishing Armenian town. Besides the church a monastery was located. In 1915, Çüngüş was the site of a massacre during the Armenian genocide in which around 10,000 Armenians living in the area were taken to the Dudan crevasse and murdered by being thrown into the chasm. The massacre was remembered and recorded by the local Kurdish population, and a memorial to victims of the killings was recorded in the film 100 Years Later (2016).