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Ottoman Turkish
Diyarbakır province
Etymology
From دیار(diyar), plural form of دار(dar, “house; land, country”), + بكر(bekr, bekir, “Banu Bakr, an Arabian tribe”), a name given after the Muslim conquest of the 7th century; before the conquest, the city was known as آمد(âmid) or قره آمد(kara âmid).
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دیاربكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 931
Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Diyarbakır”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 223
