Turkey
Mardin Province
Artuklu

Dara

Dara, formerly Oğuz, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , in . The village is populated by Kurds and had a population of 1,029 in 2021.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Village with 1,030 residents
  • Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Artuklu, Mardin, southeastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Dara, Artuklu”, “Oguz”, and “Oğuz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dara.

Photo: Nevit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Daras was an important East Roman fortress city in northern Mesopotamia on the border with the Sassanid Empire. Because of its great strategic importance, it featured prominently in the Roman-Persian conflicts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dara Dam and Ambar.

Locality
The was a Roman arch dam at in Mesopotamia, a rare pre-modern example of this dam type. The modern identification of its site is uncertain, but may rather point to a common gravity dam.

Village
Embarê is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , in . The village had a population of 319 in 2021. is situated 3 km south of Dara.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , in . The village had a population of 160 in 2021. is situated 4 km south of Dara.

Dara

Latitude
37.17795° or 37° 10′ 41″ north
Longitude
40.95289° or 40° 57′ 10″ east
Population
1,030
Elevation
561 metres (1,841 feet)
Open location code
8H925XH3+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 364631164
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
303648
Wiki­data ID
Q49359702
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Dara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دارا”
  • Armenian: “Դարա”
  • Cebuano: “Dara”
  • Cebuano: “Oğuz”
  • Chechen: “Дара”
  • Chinese: “达拉”
  • German: “Dara”
  • Greek: “Δάρας”
  • Italian: “Dara”
  • Japanese: “ダラ”
  • Kurdish: “Dara”
  • Russian: “Дара”
  • Tatar: “Дара”
  • Turkish: “Dara, Artuklu”
  • Turkish: “Dara”
  • Turkish: “Oğuz, Artuklu”
  • Turkish: “Oğuz, Mardin”
  • Turkish: “Oğuz” (historical)
  • Uzbek: “Dara”
  • “Dara”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dara”. Photo: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0.