Miepherkeim
Silvan is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,252 km2, and its population is 86,161. It is populated by Kurds.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 42,600 residents
- Description: town of Diyarbakır, Turkey
- Also known as: “Mayyafariqin”, “Miyafarkin”, “Silvan”, and “Silvan, Diyarbakır”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Çardak and Yolaç.
Çardak
Village
Çardak is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds of the Bekiran tribe and had a population of 854 in 2022. Çardak is situated 4 km northwest of Miepherkeim.
Yolaç
Village
Yolaç is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 140 in 2023. Yolaç is situated 4½ km west of Miepherkeim.
Yeniköy
Village
Yeniköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 267 in 2022. Yeniköy is situated 4½ km southeast of Miepherkeim.
Miepherkeim
- Category: locality
- Location: Silvan District, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
38.1412° or 38° 8′ 28″ northLongitude
41.0056° or 41° 0′ 20″ eastPopulation
42,600Elevation
810 metres (2,657 feet)Open location code
8HC342R4+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 133034637OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
300796Wikidata ID
Q945404
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Western Mari—“Miepherkeim” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μαρτυρούπολις”
- Arabic: “سيلوان”
- Arabic: “ميا فارقين”
- Arabic: “ميافارقين”
- Armenian: “Սիլվան”
- Asturian: “Silvan (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Silvan”
- Azerbaijani: “Silvan”
- Bambara: “Silvan ye”
- Bulgarian: “Силван”
- Catalan: “Mayyafarikin”
- Catalan: “Mayyafariqin”
- Catalan: “Mayyafariquin”
- Catalan: “Npherkert”
- Catalan: “Silvan”
- Cebuano: “Silvan”
- Central Kurdish: “فارقین”
- Chechen: “Силван”
- Chinese: “Silvan”
- Chinese: “錫爾萬”
- Chinese: “锡尔万”
- Czech: “Silvan”
- Danish: “Silvan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Farqin”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sıliwan”
- Dutch: “Silvan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميافارقين”
- French: “Martyropolis”
- French: “Mayyafarkin”
- French: “Silvan”
- Gagauz: “Silvan”
- German: “Silvan”
- Gilaki: “سيلوان”
- Greek: “Μαγιαφαρικίν”
- Greek: “Μαρτυρόπολις”
- Greek: “Σιλβάν”
- Hebrew: “סילבן”
- Hungarian: “Silvan (Diyarbakır tartomány)”
- Hungarian: “Silvan”
- Irish: “Silvan”
- Italian: “Martiropoli”
- Italian: “Mayyafariqin”
- Italian: “Silvan”
- Japanese: “シルヴァン”
- Japanese: “シルワーン”
- Kurdish: “Farqîn”
- Kurdish: “Ferqîn”
- Kurdish: “Silîva”
- Kurdish: “Silîvan”
- Kurdish: “Silvan”
- Kurdish: “فارقین”
- Latin: “Martyropolis”
- Lithuanian: “Silvanas”
- Malay: “Silvan, Turki”
- Malay: “Silvan”
- Mazanderani: “سیلوان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Silvan”
- Minangkabau: “Silvan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silvan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Martyropolis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silvan”
- Norwegian: “Silvan”
- Persian: “سیلوان”
- Persian: “شیلوان”
- Persian: “میافارقین”
- Polish: “Silvan”
- Portuguese: “Silvan”
- Portuguese: “Silvane”
- Romanian: “Silvan, Diyarbakır”
- Russian: “Маййафарикин”
- Russian: “Мияфракин”
- Russian: “Сильван”
- Russian: “Фаркин”
- Serbian: “Силван”
- Slovak: “Silvan”
- Slovenian: “Mayyafariqin”
- Slovenian: “Silvan”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیلوان”
- Spanish: “Silvan”
- Swahili: “Silvan, Turkey”
- Swahili: “Silvan”
- Tatar: “Силван”
- Turkish: “Farqin”
- Turkish: “Meyyafarikin”
- Turkish: “Meyyafarkin”
- Turkish: “Silvan”
- Ukrainian: “Сильван”
- Urdu: “سیلوان، دیار باقر”
- Urdu: “سیلوان، دیار بکر”
- Western Mari: “Сильван”
- “Silvan”
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