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This article is about the town. For the river, see
Tigris
. For the given name and surname, see
Dicle (name)
.
District and municipality in Diyarbakır, Turkey
Dicle
(
Kurdish
:
Piran
,
[2]
Ottoman Turkish
:
?????
[3]
) is a municipality and
district
of
Diyarbakır Province
,
Turkey
.
[4]
Its area is 738 km
2
,
[5]
and its population is 36,114 (2022).
[1]
It is populated by
Kurds
.
[2]
The Mayor is Felat Aygoren from the
HDP
.
[6]
Dicle is the
Kurdish
and
Turkish
name of the
Tigris
river, which runs through the district and gave its name to it. The name derives from tighri- (arrow) from
Avestan
[7]
and cognate with "tij, tir" (sharp, arrow) in
Kurdish
[8]
[9]
and tigra- (sharp, pointed) in Old Persian. Some claim that it derives from through
Akkadian
Idiqlat
from the original
Sumerian
name for the river,
Idigna
.
Composition
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]
There are 48
neighbourhoods
in Dicle District:
[10]
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