Batman (city)

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Batman
Batman coat of arms
Batman (City) (Turkey)
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Batman (city) .jpg
Main street in Batman
Basic data
Province (il) : Batman
Coordinates : 37 ° 53 '  N , 41 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 52 '50 "  N , 41 ° 7' 39"  E
Height : 550  m
Residents : 419,517 (2018)
Telephone code : (+90) 488
Postal code : 72,000
License plate : 72
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure : 45 Mahalle
Mayor : Mehmet Demir ( HDP )
Website:
Batman county
Residents : 447,106 (2018)
Surface: 653 km²
Population density : 685 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam : Hulusi Şahin
Website (Kaymakam):
Template: Infobox location in Turkey / maintenance / district

Batman (formerly İluh ) is the capital of the Turkish province of Batman and a district of the same name in southeastern Turkey. The city is named after the Batman Çayı . The origin of the name is not entirely clear. The previous settlement in Batmans was named Elih / İlhu ( Kurdish Êlih ). The city was a small village until the 1950s, and the number of inhabitants only increased with the settlement of oil companies. In 1955 a mayor's office (Turkish: Belediye ) was established in Batman and Batman became independent by law on May 16, 1990 as the 72nd province ( İl ) of Turkey.

The district town ( Merkez ) is home to around 95 percent of the district's population. The district has another city with Balpınar (5,896 inhabitants). There are also 32 villages ( Köy ), four fewer than a year earlier. Seven of these villages have over 1,000 inhabitants: Binatlı (2,699), Oymataş (1,683), Kuyubaşı (1,536), Oymataş (1,345), Kocalar (1,105), Karayün (1,103) and Çevrimova (1,087). The average population is 678 people per village.

The city is located in the west of the province on the border with the Diyarbakır Province on Batman Çayı. The D370 expressway from Şırnak to Diyarbakır runs through the city in an east-west direction and meets the D955 here , which leads south to Midyat . Batman is connected to Ankara and Istanbul by rail . Batman Airport is also located in the north of the city .

Population development

The following table shows the comparative population levels at the end of the year for the province, the central district and the city of Batman as well as the respective share at the higher administrative level. The figures are based on the address-based population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007.

year province district city
real percent real percent real
2018 599.103 74.63 447.106 93.83 419,517
2017 585.252 75.12 439,667 93.54 411.251
2016 576,899 74.48 429,665 93.61 402.189
2015 566,633 73.99 419.253 93.68 392,738
2014 557,593 73.22 408.248 93.53 381.814
2013 547,581 72.14 395.005 93.54 369.478
2012 534.205 71.51 381.990 91.35 348,963
2011 524,499 70.68 370.705 91.71 339.970
2010 510.200 69.61 355.151 91.52 325.020
2009 497.998 68.48 341.025 91.89 313,355
2008 485.616 66.80 324.402 91.97 298,342
2007 472,487 66.87 315.964 92.74 293.024

Climate table

Batman (610 m)
Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Batman (610 m)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 7.7 10.6 15.7 21.7 27.6 34.9 39.5 39.1 34.4 26.5 16.7 9.5 O 23.7
Min. Temperature (° C) -1.0 0.4 4.0 8.5 12.2 17.0 21.3 20.7 15.9 10.9 4.6 0.7 O 9.6
Temperature (° C) 3.1 5.2 9.8 15.0 20.2 27.0 31.4 30.5 25.1 18.1 10.1 4.7 O 16.7
Precipitation ( mm ) 56.8 67.5 76.8 65.4 40.0 8.4 0.5 0.7 3.3 28.7 57.1 63.6 Σ 468.8
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 3.2 4.2 5.4 7.2 9.3 11.5 12.2 11.3 10.0 7.0 5.2 3.0 O 7.5
Rainy days ( d ) 10.4 10.2 11.5 11.0 7.7 2.6 0.5 0.4 1.1 5.8 7.6 9.8 Σ 78.6
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Sports

With the Batman Petrolspor sports club, the city ​​and province of Batman have had a sports club since the 1960s that represents the city particularly in football and wrestling. The soccer division played predominantly in the third highest Turkish league, today's TFF 2. Lig . The football club had its most successful period between 1997 and 2002, when they played in the second highest Turkish league, today's TFF 1. Lig . In addition to Batman Petrolspor, the city has another football club with 72 Batmanspors (known under the name Batman Belediyespor from 1987 to 2009 ), which played most of the time in the TFF 2nd Lig and TFF 3rd Lig . This club even reached the second division before Batman Petrolspor and played in the two seasons 1992/93 and 1994/95 in the TFF 1st Lig. In the summer of 2011, 72 Batmanspor missed relegation in the TFF 3rd Lig and rose to the regional amateur league .

Personalities

Trivia

In the spring of 2009, the incumbent Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan's planned filing of a lawsuit caused a sensation in the media. He accused British-American director and producer Christopher Nolan of illegally using the city's name for his film project The Dark Knight .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ve İlçelere Göre Nüfus Bilgileri (Nufusu.com) , accessed on April 23, 2019
  2. ↑ Central Dissemination System / Merkezi Dağıtım Sistemi (MEDAS) of the TÜIK , accessed on May 5, 2019
  3. ↑ normal period 1981-2010. State Meteorological Office of the Republic of Turkey