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    Birecik is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 912 km2, and its population is 93,866 (2023). It lies on the Euphrates...
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    The Birecik Dam, one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey, is located on the Euphrates River 60 km (37 mi) downstream of Atatürk...
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    The Birecik Dam Cemetery is an Early Bronze Age cemetery in the Gaziantep region in southeastern Turkey. This cemetery was used extensively for a very...
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    The Birecik Bridge is a 695 m (2,280 ft) long deck arch bridge carrying the D.400 across the Euphrates in Birecik, Turkey. The bridge is on the state...
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    Murat Karayılan (category People from Birecik)
    Murat Karayılan (Kurdish: Mirad Qarayîlan; born 5 June 1954 in Birecik, Şanlıurfa, Turkey), also nicknamed Cemal, was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan...
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    authors, this kebab was born out of a fusion of Turkish and Arab cultures. Birecik, once an important locality in the Eyalet of Aleppo, is said to be the...
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  • 2 mi) southeast of the Turkish village of Esmesi that is in southernmost Birecik District. The Turkish government has highlighted that the relocation is...
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    centred near the small town of Birecik in the southeast of the country, and during the first half of the 20th century, the Birecik colony maintained a relatively...
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    submerged in the 1990s under the waters behind the dam on the Euphrates at Birecik. The town was therefore moved to the village of Karaotlak. Halfeti was...
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    sporadically, but in 2000, the site would be flooded due to construction of the Birecik Dam. With only a fraction of the site excavated, archaeologists feared...
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  • Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba (born December 16, 1951, Birecik, Turkey) is a Turkish doctor and politician. He is the former mayor and deputy of Şanlıurfa. He...
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  • evacuated the town to Birecik before the arrival of the Zengids. Imad al-Din captured the city without a fight. Zengi went to besiege Birecik after that, but...
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    mummies of one and a half million ibises. According to local legend in the Birecik area, the northern bald ibis was one of the first birds that Noah released...
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  • 2008, was preceded by Keban and Karakaya dams upstream and followed by Birecik and the Karkamış dams downstream. Two more dams on the river have been...
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    on the river Euphrates (partially submerged by the reservoir behind the Birecik Dam). The name of the village is Kurdish, derived from the personal name...
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    archeologists to preserve ancient mosaics that would otherwise be inundated by the Birecik Dam. Packard was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2006...
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    these averages mask the high inter-annual variability in discharge; at Birecik, just north of the Syro–Turkish border, annual discharges have been measured...
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  • called Muzerrin(...) Erkân-ı Harbiye-i Umumiye (Adana, Bağçeköy, Bakırköy, Birecik, Bitlis, Çamlıca, Diyarbekir, Erzincan, Kavaklar, Kilyos, Maraş, Menbic)...
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  • Çiçekalan (category Neighbourhoods in Birecik District)
    Çiçekalan is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Birecik, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its population is 238 (2022). It is located on the...
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    E90 runs alongside the length of the border, crossing the Euphrates at Birecik and the Tigris at Cizre. For the final 30 km the border follows the course...
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    46,132 Kocaeli 153 Bitlis 38,130 44,923 43,359 41,404 46,062 Bitlis 154 Birecik 28,440 40,054 46,304 46,020 45,736 Şanlıurfa 155 Karaköprü 2,719 13,227...
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    several places such as the Keban Dam, the Karakaya Dam, Atatürk Dam, the Birecik Dam, and Karkamis Dam. Beneath the lakes of these dams are ancient towns...
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  • Bulkan-Veşıladali, Özlem; Ündül, Ömer; Zarıf, İ. Halil; Şenyuva, Tahsin (2004). "Birecik (Şanlıurfa) Yöresinin Temel Jeolojik Özellikleri ve Jeolojik Miras Envanteri"...
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  • Akarçay (category Neighbourhoods in Birecik District)
    Akarçay is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Birecik, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its population is 611 (2022). It has a number of archaeological...
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    Tarsus, Ereğli 3.7.3. Kahramanmaraş, Gaziantep 3.7.4. Adıyaman, Halfeti, Birecik, Kilis 3.8. Ankara, Haymana, Balâ, Şereflikoçhisar, Çubuk, Kırıkkale, Keskin...
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  • Bimbia (birthname Bile), 19th century Cameroonian ruler Bile River, Guam Birecik, Turkey, a city called Bile during the Crusades Bile, Luhansk Oblast, an...
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  • (Alemdağ-Istanbul) xxth Missile Base Command (xx. Füze Üs Komutanlığı) (Birecik-Şanlıurfa) one more base will be established possibly in Anamur-Mersin...
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    Turkish flatbread, called yufka, or with lavaş. In the area of Şanlıurfa Birecik and other parts of Southern Turkey, people traditionally would prepare...
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  • Myrleia, Colonia Iulia Concordia, Apamena. Apamea lake formed by the Birecik Dam, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey abandoned Apameia (Απάμεια) Apamea Phrygia...
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    with Kurdish origin as the eldest son of his parents, Göçer was born in Birecik and raised in İzmit. At his parents' request, he started his education...
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