Batman Çayı
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Batman Çayı ancient names: Nymphaios, Nymphaeus |
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 Course of the Batman Çayı in the Tigris river system (upper right image area) |
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| location | Batman , Diyarbakır ( Turkey ) | |
| River system | Tigris | |
| Drain over | Tigris → Shatt al-Arab → Persian Gulf | |
| confluence | several source rivers in the Batman Dam 38 ° 12 ′ 3 ″ N , 41 ° 9 ′ 57 ″ E |
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Tigris coordinates: 37 ° 47 ′ 17 " N , 41 ° 0 ′ 51" E 37 ° 47 ′ 17 " N , 41 ° 0 ′ 51" E
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| length | approx. 50 km | |
| Left tributaries | Sason Çayı | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Batman dam | |
| Communities | Çatakköprü | |
 Malabadi Bridge in the foreground, behind it a road bridge and the dam of the Batman Dam |
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The Batman Çayı is a left tributary of the Tigris ( Dicle ) in southeastern Turkey with a length of about 50 km.
The Batman Çayı was called Nymphaios (Latin: Nymphaeus ) in ancient times .
The river arises at the confluence of several source rivers, the most important of which is the Kulp Çayı . Today the Batman Çayı is dammed up at this point by the Batman dam . The source rivers arise further north in the Genç Mountains , a mountain range of the south-east Taurus .
Another tributary, the Sason Çayı , flows from the east into the Batman Reservoir. The Neolithic village of Hallan Çemi was located here , today about 13 m below the level of the Batman reservoir. Directly below the dam, near the Çatakköprü settlement , the historic Malabadi Bridge from 1146–1147 spans the river. The Batman Çayı flows south and forms the border between the Turkish provinces of Batman (in the east) and Diyarbakır (in the west). It flows 5 km west of the provincial capital Batman and flows 15 km southwest of the city of Batman into the eastward flowing Tigris.
A few kilometers above the Batman Reservoir, at the confluence of the Sarım Çayı in the Kulp Çayı, the Silvan Dam is under construction.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Kuijt: Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. Springer Science & Business Media, 2000, ISBN 0-306-46122-6 , p. 42.