Kızıltepe
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Kızıltepe is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,236 km2, and its population is 267,151. It is mainly populated by Kurds of the Kîkan Kurdish tribe. Kızıltepe is situ
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The Artuqid dynasty was established in 1102 as a Turkish principality of the Seljuk Empire. It formed a Turkoman dynasty rooted in the Oghuz Döger tribe, and followed the Sunni Muslim faith. It ruled
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…Governor is Hüseyin Cam, who was also appointed as the state appointed trustee. The town has a historic 13th century great Friday mosque built by the Artuqids. On 1 July 1915, during the 1915 genocide in Diyarbekir, there was a massacre in the village where its Christian population, the Assyrians were murdered…
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City walls of Diyarbakır.
The "Sheikh" of Diyarbakır in Turkic dress, wearing the sharbūsh with tall cap. Picture from Maqamat 43 "Encounter at Al-Bakriya" . "Al-Bakriya" = Diyar Bakr, Painted in Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, ca. 1200–1210, probably Artukid (Maqamat al-Hariri, BNF Arabe 3929).
Malabadi Bridge was built by the Artuqids.