Siverek

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Field	Value
type	metro district
name	Siverek
image_skyline	Sêwerek.jpg
image_caption	A view from Siverek, 2016
image_map	Şanlıurfa location Siverek.PNG
map_caption	Map showing Siverek District in Şanlıurfa Province
coordinates
province	Şanlıurfa
leader_party	AKP
leader_name	Ali Murat Bucak
area_total_km2	3936
population_footnotes
population_total	267942
population_as_of	2022
postal_code	63600
area_code	0414
website
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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.

The word "Siverek" is of Armenian origin. In Byzantine sources, it is mentioned as Sevaverag. The literal meaning of this name used for Siverek in Byzantine and Armenian sources is Sev "black" and Averag "ruins". Other ways to spell Sevaverag include Sebabarak, Sebabarok, Sevaverak, Severags and Suveyda.

History

The town came under Byzantine control sometime after 956 and had become the seat of a strategos by the early 970s. Together with Edessa, Gargar, Samosata and Hisn Mansur formed part of the Byzantine defence system up to the 1060s when 200 Frankish horsemen were stationed there.

In the Ottoman Empire period, Siverek was within the Diyarbekir vilayet, and it had several Christian settlements.

Demographics

9,275 Armenians lived in the kaza on the eve of the First World War according to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople. They had eight churches and three schools. 5,450 Armenians and 1,200 Assyrians lived in the town of Siverek. 6,550 Assyrians lived in 32 surrounding villages. Armenian men were massacred in May 1915, followed by the deportation of the women and children, as part of the Armenian genocide. Faiz El-Ghusein reported that the road between Urfa and Severek was littered with corpses.

Politics

In common with other districts of Şanlıurfa, business and politics in Siverek are strongly influenced, even controlled, by a powerful clan. Siverek is the home town of Sedat Bucak, the former DYP member of parliament who survived the car crash in the Susurluk scandal. He is the leader of the Bucak tribe, one of whom has represented the area in the Turkish Parliament since its foundation. Sedat Bucak remains a friend of former DYP leader Mehmet Ağar. In the local elections in March 2019, Şehmus Aydın was elected mayor. He resigned due to health problems in 2020, and was succeeded by Ayşe Çakmak (AKP). The current kaymakam is Musa Aydemir.

Composition

There are 180 neighbourhoods in Siverek District:

Abdalağa
Alagün
Alanyurt
Altaylı
Altınahır
Altınlı
Altınpınar
Anacak
Armağanlı
Aşağı Alınca
Aşağı Karabahçe
Aşağı Karacaören
Aşağıyalankoz
Aşlıca
Atmaca
Avurtepe
Ayrancı
Ayvanat
Azıklı
Bağcı
Bağlar
Bahçe
Bahçelievler
Bakı Takoran
Bakırca
Bakmaç
Bardakçı
Başbük
Başdeğirmen
Batı
Bayırözü
Beğdeş
Benek
Beyali
Beybaba
Beyçeri
Böğürtlen
Bozkuyu
Bozlak
Bürüncek
Büyük Kazanlı
Büyük Oba
Büyük Tepe
Büyük Yakıtlı
Büyükgöl
Çağa
Çağdaş
Camiikebir
Çanakçı
Canpolat
Çatlı
Çavuşlu
Çaylarbaşı
Çeltik
Çepni
Çevirme
Çiftçibaşı
Çinhisar
Çubuklu
Dağbaşı
Damlıca
Dardağan
Darıcalı
Deliktaş
Dicle
Dilekli
Direkli
Divan
Doğukent
Dönemeç
Düğerin
Ediz
Eğriçay
Endarlı
Erbey
Ergen
Erkonağı
Ertem
Eskihan
Esmerçayı
Fırat
Fırın
Gaziköy
Gedik
Gerçek
Gözcek
Gözelek
Gözeli
Gülabibey
Güllice
Gülpınar
Güney
Güney Karabahçe
Gürakar
Güvenli
Güvercin
Güzelpınar
Hacıömer
Haliliye
Hamamören
Hamidiye
Hasançelebi
Hasırlı
Hayriye
İleri
İnanlı
Kale
Kalemli
Kalınağaç
Kamışlı
Kapıkaya
Karabahçe
Karacadağ
Karadibek
Karahisar
Karakeçi
Karakoyun
Kargalı
Karkaşı
Karpuzcu
Kavaklıdere
Kavalık
Kayalı
Kayseri
Keçiburcu
Keçikıran
Keş
Kesmekaya
Kıvançlı
Konurtepe
Küçükgöl
Kulaksız
Küptepe
Kurbağalı
Kuşlugöl
Mezraa
Narlıkaya
Nohut
Ofis
Oluklu
Onar
Önder
Örgülü
Ortanca
Oyman
Oyuktaş
Peynirci
Sabancı
Şairibrahimrafet
Salur
Sarıdam
Sarıkaya
Sarıören
Savucak
Şekerli
Selimpınar
Şirinkuyu
Sislice
Soydan
Söylemez
Sumaklı
Tanrıverdi
Taşağıl
Taşhan
Taşıkara
Taşlı
Turna
Ülkülü
Üstüntaş
Uzunpınar
Uzunziyaret
Yeleken
Yeniceli
Yenişehir
Yoğunca
Yoğurtçu
Yücelen
Yumrutepe
Yuvar
Zincirliçay

Climate

Siverek has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa).

| Jan humidity = 72.3 | Feb humidity = 69.9 | Mar humidity = 64.5 | Apr humidity = 61.4 | May humidity = 53.3 | Jun humidity = 38.1 | Jul humidity = 32.1 | Aug humidity = 34.7 | Sep humidity = 39.4 | Oct humidity = 51.3 | Nov humidity = 62.8 | Dec humidity = 71.8 | year humidity = 54.2 | source = NOAA{{cite web |url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/2.2/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Turkiye/CSV/Siverek_17912.csv |title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991-2020 — Siverek |publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date = January 17, 2024}}

Notable people

Osman Efendîyo Babij (1852-1929), Kurdish religious figure
Yılmaz Güney (1937–1984), Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor
Necmettin Büyükkaya, (1943-1984), Kurdish activist
Mehmed Uzun (1953–2007), Kurdish writer
Sedat Bucak (b. 1960), politician
Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı (b. 1963), politician
İbrahim Ayhan (1968-2018), politician
Filiz İşikırık (b. 1993), footballer
Remziye Bakır (b. 1997), footballer

References

Sources

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"İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping.
"Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports". [[TÜİK]].
{{Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art
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