Why visit Sinanköy
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Highlights include Zilek Bridge.
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About Sinanköy
Sinanköy (Kurdish: Sinanê; Syriac: Sīnānī) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bismil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Elmanî tribe and had a population of 1,302 in 2022.
From the Wikipedia article Sinanköy, Bismil (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Things to do1
Zilek Bridge
Bridge · 3.6 km
Bridge crossing the Batman river in Turkey
History
Sīnānī (today called Sinanköy) 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 three households, who paid five dues, and did not have a church or a priest. There were fifty Armenian hearths in 1880. The village had an Armenian church. It was located in the kaza of Beşiri. It is tentatively identified with the village of Sinoné, which was populated by 150 Syriacs in 1914, according to the list presented to the Paris Peace Conference by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation. 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 Sinanköy, Bismil on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Sinanköy
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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, 13 km away.
- Yeniköy 5 km northeast, about 5 min by car
- Balpınar 6 km east, about 6 min by car
- Oymataş 7 km south, about 7 min by car
- Bademli 8 km north, about 8 min by car
- Batman 13 km east, about 13 min by car
- Midyat 58 km southeast, about 58 min by car
- Mardin 65 km south, about 1 h by car
- Diyarbakır 68 km west, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Kızıltepe 83 km southwest, about 1 h 30 min by car
- Siirt 84 km east, about 1 h 30 min by car
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- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Pira Zilek, Dûrzan, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kapari, Nesimis, CC BY-SA 4.0
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