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Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. It is considered one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, continually inhabited since c. 8000 BCE.

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Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey and serves as the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. It is considered one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, with a history of human settlement dating back to around 8000 BCE.

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Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.demographics2_title1: Metropolitan municipality
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.demographics2_info1: TRY 62.494 billionUS$ 6.959 billion (2021)
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.demographics2_title2: Per capita
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.demographics2_info2: TRY 34,964US$ 3,893 (2021)
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.elevation_m: 675
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.postal_code_type: Postal code
Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.postal_code: 21x xx
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Safavids and Ottomans
Republic of Turkey
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Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, it is the administrative capital of the Diyarbakır Province of southeastern Turkey. It is the second-largest city in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. As of December 2024, the Metropolitan Province population was 1,833,684, of whom 1,164,940 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of the four urban districts (Bağlar, Kayapınar, Sur and Yenişehir).