Keskince
Keskince is a village in Birecik District, Şanlıurfa Province and has about 241 residents. Keskince is situated nearby to the locality Tilbeş Höyük, as well as near the village Geçittepe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 241 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Birecik, Şanlıurfa, southeastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Tilmısan” and “Tilmusa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Birecik Dam.
Birecik Dam
Dam
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Birecik Dam, one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey, is located on the Euphrates River 60 km downstream of Atatürk Dam and 8 km upstream of Birecik town 80 km west of Province of Şanlıurfa in the southeastern region of Turkey. Birecik Dam is situated 2½ km south of Keskince.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tilbeş Höyük and Belkıs.
Tilbeş Höyük
Locality
Tilbeş Höyük is an ancient Near East archaeological site inundated by the Birecik Dam located in Şanlıurfa Province in southeastern Turkey. It lies on the left bank of the upper Euphrates river across the river from the Horum Höyük archaeological site.
Belkıs
Village
Belkıs is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nizip, Gaziantep Province, Turkey. The village is inhabited by Turkmens of the Barak tribe and had a population of 196 in 2022. Belkıs is situated 3½ km south of Keskince.
Samandöken
Village
Samandöken, historically Kehriz, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nizip, Gaziantep Province, Turkey. The village is inhabited by Turkmens of the Barak tribe and had a population of 837 in 2022. Samandöken is situated 5 km southwest of Keskince.
Keskince
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Birecik District, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.07802° or 37° 4′ 41″ northLongitude
37.887° or 37° 53′ 13″ eastPopulation
241Elevation
415 metres (1,362 feet)Open location code
8G9V3VHP+6ROpenStreetMap ID
node 1941119140OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
299169Wikidata ID
Q10779087
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yoruba—“Keskince” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Keskince”
- Catalan: “Keskince”
- Cebuano: “Keskince”
- Chechen: “Кескиндже”
- Czech: “Keskince”
- Danish: “Keskince”
- Dutch: “Keskince”
- Finnish: “Keskince”
- French: “Keskince”
- German: “Keskince”
- Indonesian: “Keskince”
- Italian: “Keskince”
- Kurdish: “Tilmûsa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Keskince”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Keskince”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Keskince”
- Polish: “Keskince”
- Portuguese: “Keskince”
- Romanian: “Keskince”
- Slovak: “Keskince”
- Slovenian: “Keskince”
- Spanish: “Keskince”
- Swedish: “Keskince”
- Tagalog: “Keskince”
- Tatar: “Кескинҗе (Биреҗык)”
- Tatar: “Кескинҗе”
- Turkish: “Keskince, Birecik”
- Turkish: “Keskince”
- Vietnamese: “Keskince, Birecik”
- Vietnamese: “Keskince”
- Waray (Philippines): “Keskince”
- Yoruba: “Keskince”
- “Keskince”
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