- Diyarbakır (Kurdish and Zaza: Amed; the Turkified form of Diyarbekir is also common in colloquial Kurdish) is the largest city in Southeastern Anatolia.
- Diyarbakır, Türkiye. The 18 most popular sites. Tigranocerta. ... Fortifications of Diyarbakır. Malabadi Bridge.
- The Diyarbakır City Walls are a series of fortifications surrounding the old city of Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey.
- The old city of Diyarbakr, located in southeast Turkey, is surrounded by an amazing system of fortifications known as the Diyarbakr City Walls.
- Diyarbakır was first walled in the fourth century CE, and it is likely that the current walls roughly preserve the form of the original fortifications.
- Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigris River Basin that is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, the fortified city of Diyarbakır and the landscape around...
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- Walls of Diyarbakir city. The Fortifications of Diyarbakir are a set of fortifications enclosing the historical district of Sur in Diyarbakir.
- In 1232 the city was destroyed by the Ayyubid ruler Melik Kamil, who used the stones in the approval of today’s fortifications.