Bingöl
Bingöl | |
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  Bingöl | |
| Coordinates: 38°53′10″N 40°30′6″E / 38.88611°N 40.50167°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Bingöl |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Yücel Barakazi (AKP) |
| Area | |
| • District | 1,789.86 km2 (691.07 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Urban | Template:Turkey district populations |
| • District | Template:Turkey district populations |
| Website | www |
Bingöl (Template:Lang-hy Chapaghjur, Template:Lang-diq, Template:Lang-kmr) is a city in Eastern Turkey. It is surrounded by mountains and a large number of 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 .[2]
Bingöl is the capital of Bingöl Province, one of the 81 provinces of Turkey.
On May 1, 2003 the whole area suffered from a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, leaving 177 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.
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.[3]
Until the middle of the 20th century, the city was known as Çapakçur/Çabakçur, according to its Armenian name of Chapaghjur ("rough waters").[4][5] The place was then renamed Bingöl, a term of Turkish origin translating as "thousand lakes".
Geography
Bingöl is 144 km east of Elâzığ and is situated in the high region of Eastern Anatolia. Bingöl is a mountainous area with heights reaching 10,000 feet.[6] 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.
| Climate data for Bingöl (1960–2012) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.3 (55.9) |
16.2 (61.2) |
22.3 (72.1) |
30.3 (86.5) |
33.4 (92.1) |
39.0 (102.2) |
42.0 (107.6) |
41.3 (106.3) |
37.8 (100.0) |
32.1 (89.8) |
25.5 (77.9) |
22.8 (73.0) |
42.0 (107.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 2.1 (35.8) |
3.3 (37.9) |
9.1 (48.4) |
16.2 (61.2) |
22.7 (72.9) |
29.3 (84.7) |
34.5 (94.1) |
34.5 (94.1) |
29.7 (85.5) |
21.5 (70.7) |
12.4 (54.3) |
4.9 (40.8) |
18.3 (65.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
3.8 (38.8) |
10.6 (51.1) |
16.3 (61.3) |
22.1 (71.8) |
26.7 (80.1) |
26.4 (79.5) |
21.1 (70.0) |
14.0 (57.2) |
6.6 (43.9) |
0.5 (32.9) |
12.0 (53.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.1 (21.0) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
5.6 (42.1) |
10.1 (50.2) |
14.6 (58.3) |
18.9 (66.0) |
18.5 (65.3) |
13.5 (56.3) |
8.1 (46.6) |
2.1 (35.8) |
−2.9 (26.8) |
6.4 (43.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −23.2 (−9.8) |
−21.6 (−6.9) |
−20.3 (−4.5) |
−9.2 (15.4) |
1.0 (33.8) |
3.5 (38.3) |
8.8 (47.8) |
7.8 (46.0) |
4.2 (39.6) |
−2.4 (27.7) |
−15.0 (5.0) |
−25.1 (−13.2) |
−25.1 (−13.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 132.6 (5.22) |
133.5 (5.26) |
127.4 (5.02) |
122.2 (4.81) |
75.3 (2.96) |
20.8 (0.82) |
5.8 (0.23) |
3.4 (0.13) |
10.2 (0.40) |
64.2 (2.53) |
110.8 (4.36) |
136.1 (5.36) |
942.3 (37.1) |
| Average precipitation days | 12.6 | 12.4 | 13.5 | 15.2 | 13.5 | 5.5 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 8.3 | 9.3 | 12.7 | 108.6 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 105.4 | 123.2 | 155 | 168 | 238.7 | 291 | 310 | 294.5 | 258 | 195.3 | 135 | 93 | 2,367.1 |
| Source: Devlet Meteoroloji İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü [7] | |||||||||||||
Transport
Bingöl Airport opened on 12 July 2013.
Education
Bingöl University opened on 29 May 2007.[8]
References
- ^ "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ^ Statistical Institute[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ Bingöl Tarihi, frmartuklu.org
- ^ "All About Turkey". Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-19.
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