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Siverek
Sign in to saveSiverek (; ; ) is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 3,936 km2, and its population is 267,942 (2022). Siverek is in the Şanlıurfa province but is geographically closer to the large city of Diyarbakır (approx. 83 km).
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Siverek
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Sêwerek.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- A view from Siverek, 2016
- Turkey place.image_map
- Şanlıurfa location Siverek.PNG
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Siverek District in Şanlıurfa Province
- Turkey place.province
- Şanlıurfa
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ali Murat Bucak
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 3936
- Turkey place.population_total
- 267942
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 63600
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0414
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Siverek (; ; ) is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 3,936 km2, and its population is 267,942 (2022). Siverek is in the Şanlıurfa province but is geographically closer to the large city of Diyarbakır (approx. 83 km).
==Etymology== Siverek was historically known in medieval Arabic as Hisn ar-Ran (), which was corrupted into Greek as Chasanara (), as found in the Escorial Taktikon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siverek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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