Why visit Ergani
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About Ergani
Ergani (Ottoman Turkish: عثمانيه, romanized: Osmaniye, Kurdish: Erxenî), formerly known as Arghni or Arghana, is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,510 km2, and its population is 136,099 (2022). Ergani District is located in the administrative as the Southeastern Anatolia Region, but as a geographical region it is located in Eastern Anatolia. The mayor is Ahmet Kaya (HDP) since 2019.
From the Wikipedia article Ergani (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Trade has flourished between Ergani and Mesopotamia during the third millennium BC. Ergani has a rich history of being a copper mining region. Copper supplied the entire region from Anatolia, Northern Levant to Upper Mesopotamia, but most importantly down the Euphrates river to Lower Mesopotamia.
Nearby sites important for the copper industry was Arslandtepe to the west and Norsun Tepe to the east. This region eventually produced arsenical copper, where the copper was added with arsenic. Arsenic is highly poisonous and was later replaced by tin.
From the History section of Ergani on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Map of Ergani
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Getting there and nearby towns
Elazığ Airport (EZS) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 55 km away.
- Kömürtaş 6 km southeast, about 6 min by car
- Salihli 9 km southwest, about 9 min by car
- Özbilek 9 km east, about 9 min by car
- Kortaş 9 km northwest, about 9 min by car
- Bozyer 10 km south, about 10 min by car
- Gözekaya 10 km east, about 10 min by car
- Şölen 12 km east, about 12 min by car
- Diyarbakır 57 km southeast, about 57 min by car
- Elazığ 65 km northwest, about 1 h by car
- Siverek 69 km southwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
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Sources and licences
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, coordinates, regions and time zone
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
- Wikidata (CC0 1.0): elevation, founding date, time zone, website
- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- General view of Tevekli, Ergani, Abbasturhan, Public domain
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