Dicle (, ) is a municipality and

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Diyarbakır Province Diyarbakır Province (; ; ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey. Its area is 15,101 km2, and its population is 1,804,880 (2022). The provincial capital is the city of Diyarbakır. The Kurdish majority province ...

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. Its area is 738 km², and its population is 36,114 (2022). It is populated by Zaza Kurds. The mayor is Felat Aygören from the HDP. Dicle is the

Zaza Language Zaza (endonym: , , , , , or , ) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey by the Zazas, who are mostly considered as Kurds, and in many cases identify as such. The language is a part of the Zaza–Gorani language ...

and Turkish name of the

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river, which runs through the district and gave its name to it. The name derives from tighri- (arrow) from

Avestan Avestan ( ) is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. It belongs to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family and was First language, originally spoken during the Avestan period, Old ...

and cognate with "tîj, tîr" (sharp, arrow) in

and tigra- (sharp, pointed) in Old Persian. Some claim that it derives from through Akkadian ''Idiqlat'' from the original Sumerian name for the river, ''Idigna''.

Composition

There are 48

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in Dicle District:Mahalle
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* Altayköy * Arıköy * Bademli * Bağlarbaşı * Bahçedere * Bahçeköy * Baltacı * Başköy * Baturköy * Biçer * Boğaz * Boğazköy * Bozaba * Çavlı * Çelebi * Dedeköy * Değirmenli * Döğer * Durabeyli * Gelincik * Gölbaşı * Gündoğdu * Kaygısız * Kayıköy * Kelekçi * Kırklar *

Kırkpınar Kırkpınar (Turkish language, Turkish for "forty springs") is a Turkey, Turkish oil wrestling (yağlı güreş) tournament where pehlivans (wrestlers) compete for three days. It is held annually, usually in late June, near Edirne, Turkey sinc ...

* Kocaalan * Koruköy * Kurşunlu * Kurudere * Meydanköy * Pekmezciler * Pınar * Sergenli * Süsümlü * Taşağıl * Tepe * Tepebaşı * Uğrak * Ulubaş * Uluçeşme * Üzümlü * Yeşilsırt * Yeşiltepe * Yokuşlu

References

Kurdish settlements in Diyarbakır Province Populated places in Diyarbakır Province Districts of Diyarbakır Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey {{Diyarbakır-geo-stub