Siirt

Also known as Siirt City

thumb|City centreSiirt (; ; ; ;) is a city in the Siirt District of Siirt Province in Turkey. It had a population of 160,340 in 2021. The city is predominantly inhabited by Kurds.

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Siirt is a city and municipality in Turkey, serving as the capital of Siirt Province. It is located in the Bitlis vilayet and has a population of 166,332, with an urban population of 160,340 and a rural population of 21,796. The city is situated at an elevation of 895 meters above sea level and operates in the UTC+03:00 time zone. Its postal code is 56000.

The administrative entity is distinct from Siirt Province itself. While the city is maintained by WikiProject Turkey and WikiProject Cities, it is categorized separately from the province. The area is associated with people from Siirt, who are grouped in a specific category.

Synthesized by Vinony from 48 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Meteo, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Place details

Locality: Eruh
Region: Siirt
Country: Türkiye
Population: 114,034
Timezone: Europe/Istanbul

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Air quality

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PM2.5: 11.9 µg/m³
PM10: 18.3 µg/m³

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Key facts

Turkey place.type: municipality
Turkey place.name: Siirt
Turkey place.province: Siirt
Turkey place.image_skyline: Sêrt.jpg
Turkey place.image_caption: View of Siirt
Turkey place.leader_title: Elected Mayor
Turkey place.leader_name: Sofya Alağaş (DEM Party) (elect-mayor) (deposed)Dr. Kemal Kızılkaya (trustee)
Turkey place.district: Siirt
Turkey place.population_total: 160340
Turkey place.population_as_of: 2021

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Travel guide

Understand

Siirt has a mixed population of Kurds, Turks, and local Arabs, the latter of whom speak a dialect that is incomprehensible to Arabs from elsewhere.

Get in

Siirt is not far from Diyarbakır, the largest city of Southeastern Anatolia, 187 km west.

While there is no railway connection to Siirt, TCDD operates an overnight train from Ankara, the Guney Kurtalan Express, to nearby Kurtalan. From there it's 30 km by road and there are connecting buses and taxis.

Buy

Bıttım soap (Bıttım sabunu) made of oil of local variety of pistachios, with its mossy scent and bright green colour, is unique to the city. It's best to buy it from reputable places as some home-made soaps can turn out to be not properly produced (with an excess of lye), so can heavily dry and irritate your skin.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Encyclopedic overview

14 sections

Contents

History
Pre-Islamic
Modern times
Kurdish-Turkish conflict
Demographics
Historical
Modern times
Government
Trivia
Climate
Notable people
Gallery
References
External links

thumb|City centreSiirt (; ; ; ;) is a city in the Siirt District of Siirt Province in Turkey. It had a population of 160,340 in 2021. The city is predominantly inhabited by Kurds.

The city is divided into the neighborhoods of Afetevlerı, Alan, Algul, Bahçelievler, Barış, Batı, Conkbayır, Çal, Doğan, Dumlupınar, Halenze, İnönü, Karakol, Kooperatif, Sakarya, Tınaztepe, Ulus, Ülkü, Veysel Karani and Yeni.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siirt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.