Hevsel Gardens
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Within Vinony's link graph, Hevsel Gardens is referenced by 35 other articles, and connects out to World Heritage Site, Tigris and Turkey.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It sits within the topics Diyarbakır, Geography of Diyarbakır Province and Tigris River.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Location
- Diyarbakır , Diyarbakır Province , Şanlıurfa Subregion , Southeast Anatolia Region , Turkey
- Part of
- Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape
- Criteria
- Cultural: (iv)
- Inscription
- 2015 (39th Session )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- field
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Diyarbakır Province
- Image
- Tigris River At Diyarbakir.JPG
Show 3 more facts
- native label
- Hevsel Bahçeleri
- Commons category
- Hevsel Gardens, Diyarbakır
- located in/on physical feature
- Southeastern Anatolia Region
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Encyclopedic overview
The gardens in 2010 The Hevsel Gardens (Turkish: Hevsel Bahçeleri, Kurdish: Baxçeyên Hewselê), are the seven hundred hectares of cultivated, fertile lands near the Tigris in eastern Turkey, between the Diyarbakır Fortress and the river. The fortified city was enclosed by a two-part system of defensive walls, and the gardens, fed by springs on the steep slope below, played a vital role in keeping the city provisioned and watered. The gardens were added to the UNESCO tentative list in 2013, and they became a World Heritage Site in 2015, along with the walls of Diyarbakır Fortress.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hevsel Gardens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.