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Beşpınar, Turkey

Beşpınar is a town of 1,227 people in Batman, Turkey.

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Population1,227 GeoNames
RegionBatman
Elevation755 m 2,477 ft
Time zoneEurope/Istanbul
Nearest airportSiirt Airport (SXZ) 26 km

About Beşpınar

Beşpınar (Kurdish: Aranz; Syriac: Arnez) is a village in the Beşiri District of Batman Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds and had a population of 1,756 in 2021. The village is Yazidi.

From the Wikipedia article Beşpınar, Beşiri (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.

History

‘Arnez (today called Beşpınar) was historically inhabited by Syriac Orthodox Christians. In the Syriac Orthodox patriarchal register of dues of 1870, it was recorded that the village had 10 households, who paid 16 dues, and did not have a priest. There was a Syriac Orthodox church of Morī Gewargīs. It was located in the kaza (district) of Şirvan.

From the History section of Beşpınar, Beşiri on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Map of Beşpınar

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Getting there and nearby towns

Siirt Airport (SXZ) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 26 km away.

  • Erdurağı 7 km north, about 7 min by car
  • Hasankeyf 23 km southwest, about 23 min by car
  • Siirt 31 km east, about 31 min by car
  • Demiryol 41 km west, about 41 min by car
  • Erköklü 40 km west, about 40 min by car
  • Batman 42 km west, about 42 min by car
  • Midyat 52 km southwest, about 52 min by car
  • Cizre 76 km southeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
  • Bitlis 77 km northeast, about 1 h 15 min by car
  • Hizan 83 km northeast, about 1 h 30 min by car

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