Sendere

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Esendere (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Hakkari
District ( ilçe ) : Yüksekova
Coordinates : 37 ° 43 '  N , 44 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 42 '56 "  N , 44 ° 35' 53"  E
Height : 1650  m
Residents : 3,617 (2018)
Telephone code : (+90)
Postal code : 30400
License plate : 30th
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure : 4 malls
Belediye Başkanı: Dırbaz Büyüksu ( AKP )
Template: Infobox Location in Turkey / Maintenance / District Without Inhabitants Or Area

Esendere (kurd. Bajirge ) is a small town and Belediye in the Yüksekova district of the Turkish province of Hakkâri . Esendere is located directly on the border with Iran at 1,650 m above sea level, approx. 39 km northeast of Yüksekova.

The Kurdish name is the historical name. Bajirge comes from the Kurdish word bajer (small town) and means "place of the small town". The name Bajirge is registered with the land registry.

Esendere is important because of its location as one of the three border crossings to Iran. Between 1990 and 2000 the population in Esendere rose from 2,239 to 3,916 people

Individual evidence

  1. Central Dissemination System Database of the TÜIK (Eng.)
  2. TC Devlet Başbakanlık Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü: Osmanlı Yer Adları. Ankara 2006, p. 567
  3. Bilge Umar: Türkiye'deki Tarihsel Adlar. Istanbul 1993, p. 148
  4. www.e-tkbm.gov.tr ( Memento from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. 2000 Genel Nüfus Sayımı , 2000 population census (Turkish)