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Eğil

Field	Value
type	metro district
name	Eğil
image_skyline	Gêl.jpg
image_map	Diyarbakır location Eğil.png
map_caption	Map showing Eğil District in Diyarbakır Province
coordinates
province	Diyarbakır
area_total_km2	449
population_footnotes
population_total	21434
population_as_of	2022
postal_code	21470
area_code	0412
website

Eğil (; ; ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 449 km2, and its population is 21,434 (2022). It is populated by Kurds.

The elected mayor Mustafa Akkul of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was dismissed on the 23 March 2020 and replaced by a trustee. The current Kaymakam is Volkan Hür.

Eğil is an ancient city 50 km away from Diyarbakır with many ancient forts and caves dating to the time of the Armenian kingdom of Sophene. It is identified with Carcathiocerta, the capital of the Kingdom of Sophene, and the ancient Armenian religious center of Angegh-tun (Angełtun).

In 2018 parts of a village re-emerged in Eğil in the Çakırören neighbourhood, after the Dicle Dam suffered water level decrease due to a burst of one of the gates. It is also the location of a supposed tomb of Elisha, which is located in the Kale neighborhood of Eğil.

History

During the Bronze Age, the city was known as Ingalawa by the Hittites. Most scholars identify Eğil with the ancient city of Carcathiocerta. The city, with its strategic location overlooking the west bank of the Tigris, is the oldest in the region, with remains dating back to the Assyrian and Hellenistic periods. Later on, the city was known in Armenian as Angł, capital of the district of Angełtun, which was known as Ingilene in Greco-Roman sources. It was part of the larger province of Sophene. Armenian sources described Angł as housing "the tombs of the former kings of Armenia", apparently taking the rulers of Sophene as a branch of the Armenian kings' dynasty. The rock-cut tombs still exist today at Eğil.

Composition

There are 30 neighbourhoods in Eğil District:

Akalan
Aşağıdöşemeler
Babalar
Bahşılar
Balaban
Balım
Baysu
Dere
Düzlük
Gündoğuran
Gürünlü
Ilgın
Kale
Kalecik
Kalkan
Kayaköyü
Kazanlı
Kırkkuyu
Konak
Meşeler
Oyalı
Sağlam
Sarıca
Sarmaşık
Selman
Taşdam
Tepecik
Yatır
Yenişehir
Yukarıhaydan

Notable people

Muammer Yıldırım, footballer
Zelal Baturay, Footballer

Gallery

References

Tahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla)'', T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 163.
Malmîsanij, Mehemed. (1988). "Bazı yörelerde Dımıli ve Kurmanci lehçelerinin köylere göre dağılımı". Berhem.
[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
"İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping.
"Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports". [[TÜİK]].
"HDP's Eğil Co-Mayor Arrested".
(2017). "Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between East and West". Brill.
AA, Daily Sabah with. (2018-12-20). "Drop in dam water reveals submerged village, Elisha's tomb in SE Turkey's Diyarbakır".
"Ancient Underwater Village Has Been Revealed in Turkey (photos)".
Russell, James. (1997). "The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century". Palgrave Macmillan.
(2014). "The Historical Geography of Sophene". Acta Antiqua.
[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.

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