Çüngüş
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Çüngüş (, , ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 512 km2, and its population is 10,720 (2022).
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- Locality
- Çüngüş
- Region
- Diyarbakır Province
- Country
- Türkiye
- Population
- 5,103
- Timezone
- Europe/Istanbul
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Çüngüş
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Çüngüş manzara 2014-03-19 19-20.jpg
- Turkey place.image_map
- Diyarbakır location Çüngüş.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Çüngüş District in Diyarbakır Province
- Turkey place.province
- Diyarbakır
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ali Suat Akmeşe
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 512
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 1049
- Turkey place.population_total
- 10720
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 21870
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0412
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 11927
- Elevation
- 1049
- Image
- Çüngüş manzara 2014-03-19 19-20.jpg
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- postal code
- 21870
- Commons category
- Çüngüş
- urban population
- 11020
- rural population
- 15967
- P12749
- Volpara
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2 sectionsContents
- Composition
- References
Çüngüş (, , ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 512 km2, and its population is 10,720 (2022).
Çüngüş was an Armenian bishopric an Armenian Church was constructed in 1841. It was a large and flourishing Armenian town. Besides the church a monastery was located. In 1915, Çüngüş was the site of a massacre during the Armenian genocide in which around 10,000 Armenians living in the area were taken to the Dudan crevasse and murdered by being thrown into the chasm. The massacre was remembered and recorded by the local Kurdish population, and a memorial to victims of the killings was recorded in the film 100 Years Later (2016).
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