Bilge (Mazıdağı)

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Bilge (Mazıdağı) (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Mardin
District ( ilçe ) : Mazıdağı
Coordinates : 37 ° 28 '  N , 40 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 28 '2 "  N , 40 ° 35' 29"  E
Height : 1000  m
Residents : 125 (2009)
Telephone code : (+90) 482
Postal code : 47700
License plate : 47
Structure and administration (as of 2010)
Muhtar : M. Halim Çelebi
Template: Infobox Location in Turkey / Maintenance / District Without Inhabitants Or Area

Bilge ( Kurdish Zanqirt ) is a village in the district of Mazıdağı in the Turkish province of Mardin . Bilge is located about 28 km northwest of the provincial capital Mardin and 10 km east of Mazıdağı. According to the last census, Bilge had 125 inhabitants (as of December 2009).

On May 4, 2009, occurred here within the Kurdish Çelebi- Aşirets the massacre in Mardin . 44 people were killed, including six children and 16 women. Another 17 people were seriously injured. The massacre is one of the most devastating acts of blood revenge in Turkish history .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 17, 2010
  2. Yerelnet.org , accessed 5 October 2010