Dicle ( ku, Pîran, ota, پيران) is a municipality and

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

Diyarbakır Province Diyarbakır Province ( tr, Diyarbakır ili, Zazaki: Suke Diyarbekır ku, Parêzgeha Amedê) is a province in southeastern Turkey. The province covers an area of 15,355 km2 and its population is 1,528,958. The provincial capital is the cit ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. Its area is 738 km², and its population is 36,114 (2022). It is populated by

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ira ...

. The Mayor is Felat Aygören from the HDP. Dicle is the

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...

and Turkish name of the

Tigris The Tigris () is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the ...

river, which runs through the district and gave its name to it. The name derives from tighri- (arrow) from Avestan and cognate with "tîj, tîr" (sharp, arrow) in

and tigra- (sharp, pointed) in Old Persian. Some claim that it derives from through

Akkadian Akkadian or Accadian may refer to: * Akkadians, inhabitants of the Akkadian Empire * Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language * Akkadian literature, literature in this language * Akkadian cuneiform Cuneiform is a logo- syllabi ...

''Idiqlat'' from the original Sumerian name for the river, ''Idigna''.

Composition

There are 48

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in Dicle District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. * 15 Temmuz *

Acar Acar is a type of vegetable pickle of Maritime Southeast Asia, most prevalent in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. It is a localised version of Indian '' achar''. It is known as atjar in Dutch cuisine, derived from Indonesian ''acar ...

* Altayköy * Arıköy * Bademli * Bağlarbaşı * Bahçedere * Bahçeköy * Baltacı * Başköy * Baturköy * Biçer * Boğaz * Boğazköy * Bozaba * Çavlı * Çelebi * Dedeköy * Değirmenli * Döğer * Durabeyli * Gelincik * Gölbaşı * Gündoğdu * Kaygısız * Kayıköy * Kelekçi * Kırklar *

Kırkpınar Kırkpınar is a Turkish oil wrestling ( tr, yağlı güreş) tournament where Pehlivans (wrestlers) compete for three days. It is held annually, usually in late June, near Edirne, Turkey since 1360. In the finals held on the last day, the first ...

* Kocaalan * Koruköy * Kurşunlu * Kurudere * Meydanköy * Pekmezciler *

Pınar Pınar is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Pınar" means "Spring" (of water), and/or "Fountain". Notable people called Pınar include: Given name * Pinar Heggernes (born 1969), Turkish-born Norwegian computer scientist * Pına ...

* Sergenli * Süsümlü * Taşağıl * Tepe * Tepebaşı * Uğrak * Ulubaş * Uluçeşme *

Üzümlü Üzümlü ( ku, Cîmîn/Cimnî) is a town and district of Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinent ...

* Yeşilsırt * Yeşiltepe * Yokuşlu

References

Kurdish settlements in Diyarbakır Province Populated places in Diyarbakır Province Districts of Diyarbakır Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey {{Diyarbakır-geo-stub