| Diyarbakir, Turkey (392 words) |
 | Diyarbakir, one of the most picturesque of all Turkish cities, with a high proportion of its inhabitants Kurds, stands on a pedestal of fl basalt on the west bank of the upper Tigris (Dicle Nehri), surrounded by fertile plots of cultivated land. |
| Once a staging post on the ancient trade route from the Persian-Arabian Gulf to the Old Syrian Mediterranean ports and, via Byzantium, to the West, Diyarbakir, with its excellently preserved town wall and citadel, its host of lovely medreses and mosques and its winding alleyways is the epitome of an old Anatolian town. |
| In the ninth century B.C. Diyarbakir was the chief settlement in the Bit Zamami region, intermittently dependent in subsequent centuries on the Assyrian Empire. |
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