Savur district
Sign in to savethumb|Savur Savur (; ; ), meaning “mountain ridge” in Syriac and formerly known as Savor, is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 962 km2, and its population is 24,821 (2022).
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Savur
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Savur crop-fm.jpg
- Turkey place.image_map
- Mardin location Savur.PNG
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Savur District in Mardin Province
- Turkey place.province
- Mardin
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 962
- Turkey place.population_total
- 24821
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0482
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Mardin Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 27304
- Area
- 1031.82
- Elevation
- 876
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Image
- Stewr.jpg
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- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- urban population
- 25496
- Commons category
- Savur
- topic's main category
- Category:Savur
- rural population
- 33043
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Demographics
- Politics
- Composition
- Notable people
- References
thumb|Savur Savur (; ; ), meaning “mountain ridge” in Syriac and formerly known as Savor, is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 962 km2, and its population is 24,821 (2022).
== Demographics == According to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1,032 lived in Savur on the eve of World War I. They had one church and two schools. They were massacred during the Armenian genocide. The Agha Petros mentions an Assyrian population of 200.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Savur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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