Why visit Balpınar
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Highlights include Lara Aqua Park.
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About Balpınar
Balpınar (Kurdish: Gîrêsira; Syriac: Grīsīrā) is a town (belde) in the Batman District of Batman Province in Turkey. The town is populated by Kurds of the Reman tribe and had a population of 5,685 in 2021.
From the Wikipedia article Balpınar, Batman (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Grīsīrā (today called Balpınar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians and Kurdish-speaking Armenians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had one household, who paid eight dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were seven Armenian hearths in 1880. There was an Armenian church of Surb Errordutiun. In 1914, the village was populated by 200 Syriacs, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. It was located in the kaza of Beşiri. The Armenians were attacked by the Belek, Bekran, Şegro, and other Kurdish tribes in May 1915 amidst the Armenian genocide.
From the History section of Balpınar, Batman on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Map of Balpınar
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Getting there and nearby towns
14. İnsansız Uçak Sistemleri Üs Komutanlığı Askeri Havaalanı (BAL) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 9 km away.
- Batman 7 km east, about 7 min by car
- Erköklü 8 km east, about 8 min by car
- Demiryol 10 km northeast, about 10 min by car
- Hasankeyf 36 km southeast, about 36 min by car
- Midyat 56 km southeast, about 56 min by car
- Mardin 68 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Diyarbakır 74 km west, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Siirt 78 km east, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Kızıltepe 87 km southwest, about 1 h 30 min by car
- Nusaybin 90 km south, about 1 h 30 min by car
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