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Bingöl
Municipality
Bingöl
Coordinates: 38°53′10″N 40°30′6″E / 38.88611°N 40.50167°E / 38.88611; 40.50167
Country	Turkey
Province	Bingöl
Government
• Mayor	Yücel Barakazi (AKP)
Area
• District	1,789.86 km (691.07 sq mi)
Elevation	1,120 m (3,690 ft)
Population
• Urban	Template:Turkey district populations
• District	Template:Turkey district populations
Website	www.bingol.gov.tr

Bingöl (Template:Lang-diq, Template:Lang-kuTemplate:Lang-hy) is a city in Eastern Turkey. It is surrounded by mountains and numerous glacier lakes, hence the name (Turkish for a thousand lakes). Lately, the town has become a popular tourist destination. According to 2017 estimates, it has a population of over 111,000.

Bingöl is the capital of Bingöl Province, one of the 81 provinces of Turkey.

History

In the Middle Ages, Bingöl was known as Romanoupolis (Template:Lang-gr) after the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, who incorporated it permanently into the Byzantine Empire in 942. It initially formed a subdivision of the thema of Mesopotamia, but it was later (ca. 970) elevated into a separate theme.

Bingol was ruled by the Kurdish Suveydi Dynasty from 13 centuries to 1864, which ruled the Bingöl region autonomously subject to the Ottoman's in 1514.Until the middle of the 20th century, the city was known as Çapakçur/Çabakçur, according to its Armenian name of Chapaghjur ("rough waters"). The place was then renamed Bingöl, a term of Turkish origin translating as "thousand lakes". On 1 May 2003 the whole area suffered from a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, leaving 176 dead and 520 injured. On 8 March 2010, the area suffered another earthquake, of magnitude 5.9, with its epicenter in Elâzığ Province, 45 km (28 mi) west of Bingöl. On 14 June 2020, a relatively small earthquake occurred in the region, killing a village guard and injuring 21 others.

Geography

Bingöl is 144 kilometres (89 mi) east of Elâzığ and is situated in the high region of Eastern Anatolia. Bingöl is a mountainous area with heights reaching 3000m, Bingöl city is at about 1120m above sea level. The Gayt River (Gayt Çayı), a right-bank tributary of the Eastern Euphrates (Murat River), runs through the city.

Climate

Bingöl has a continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dsa), with hot and dry summers and cold and snowy winters. The driest months are July and August and the wettest are February and December.

Transport

Bingöl Airport opened on 12 July 2013.

Education

Bingöl University opened on 29 May 2007.

References

1. "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
2. Abdurrahman Yılmaz (2015). "Zazaca - Türkçe sözlük : Genç - Bingöl yöresi" (PDF) (in Zazaki and Turkish): 32. Retrieved 29 April 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 55. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
4. Statistical Institute
5. Oikonomides, Nicolas (1972). Les Listes de Préséance Byzantines des IXe et Xe Siècles (in French). Paris, France: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. p. 359.
6. M. Mahfuz, Söylemez (2010). According To The Tahrir Register Dated 1550 Liva Of Çapakçur (PDF). Bingöl. p. 17. ISBN 978-975-6788-82-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
7. Italian City-states and Catholic Missions in Mongolian World of the 13th and 14th Centuries, ANTHROPOLOGIA INTEGRA Vol. 3, No. 2, 2012, p.9; academia.edu
8. Bingöl Tarihi, frmartuklu.org
9. Aydan, Ö. (July 2003). "THE BİNGÖL EARTHQUAKE OF MAY 1, 2003" (PDF). Tokai University, Department of Marine Civil Engineering. p. 1.
10. "Bingöl'de deprem: Bir güvenlik görevlisi hayatını kaybetti". euronews (in Turkish). 15 June 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
11. Aydan, Ö. (July 2003). "THE BİNGÖL EARTHQUAKE OF MAY 1, 2003" (PDF). Tokai University, Department of Marine Civil Engineering. p. 4.
12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
13. Bingöl University Archived 11 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine

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