Eğil

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Eğil
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Eğil (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Diyarbakır
Coordinates : 38 ° 15 '  N , 40 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 38 ° 15 '26 "  N , 40 ° 5' 5"  E
Telephone code : (+90) 412
Postal code : 21 470
License plate : 21st
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure : 30 mahalles
Mayor : Mustafa battery ( HDP )
Postal address : Yenişehir Mah.,
Papatya Sk. No: 110
21470 Eğil / DİYARBAKIR
Eğil County
Residents : 23,369 (2018)
Surface: 449 km²
Population density : 52 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam : İdris Arslan
Website (Kaymakam):

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Location of EğilAltıeylül within Diyarbakır

Eğil ( Kurdish Êgil , Zazaisch Gêl , from Aramaic agel / aglâ - "door") is a town in the district of the same name in the Turkish province of Diyarbakır and at the same time a district of the Büyükşehir belediyesi Diyarbakır (metropolitan municipality / metropolitan province ). Eğil is centrally located in the province and has the fourth lowest population in the province. According to the logo, the place received the 1934 status of a municipality ( Belediye ).

history

M. Salvini wants to locate the city of Niḫirija ( URU ni-ḫi-ri-a-ni) of the Hittite , Assyrian and Urartian sources in Eğil. In Roman and Byzantine times the city of Ingila and the surrounding area was called Ingilene . In Joshua Stylites it was called Eggil in Aramaic , the Armenian name was Anggh , the region Anggh-tun . The former diocese of Ingila is now a titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church.

sons and daughters of the town

Individual evidence

  1. Nufusu.com Türkiye Nüfusu , accessed October 6, 2019
  2. ^ M. Salvini: The historical Geography of the Sevan Region in the Urartian period. In: Raffaele Biscione, Simon Hmayakyan Neda Parmegiani (Ed.): The North-Eastern frontier Urartians and non-Urartians in the Sevan Lake basin. CNR, Istituto di studi sulle civiltà dell'Egeo e del Vicino Oriente, Rome 2002, p. 47
  3. Andreas Luther : The Syrian Chronicle of Josua Stylites. (Studies on ancient literature and history) Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 9783110154702
  4. ^ Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt: Armenia then and now. Volume 2.1: On the Chaldic and Greek tracks in Turkish eastern Armenia, in northern Assyria and from the great Zab to the Black Sea. Half 1. Turkish Eastern Armenia. In northern Assyria. Berlin 1926. Reprint, Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim 1988, ISBN 9783487090290

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