Belkıs
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 6,860 residents
- Description: köy in Nizip, Turkey
- Also known as: “Belkis”, “Belkıs, Nizip”, “Kehriz”, “Keriz”, and “Kohriz”
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samandöken and Turnalı.
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.
Turnalı
Village
Turnalı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Nizip, Gaziantep Province, Turkey. The village had a population of 24 in 2022. Turnalı is situated 3 km southwest of Belkıs.
Dutlu
Village
Dutlu, historically known as Kefertut or Torunmahmut, 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 239 in 2022. Dutlu is situated 4 km southwest of Belkıs.
Belkıs
- Categories: village of Turkey and locality
- Location: Nizip, Gaziantep Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.04583° or 37° 2′ 45″ northLongitude
37.87547° or 37° 52′ 32″ eastPopulation
6,860Elevation
466 metres (1,529 feet)Open location code
8G9V2VWG+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 599901930OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
308312Wikidata ID
Q1705534
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yoruba—“Belkıs” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Belkıs”
- Catalan: “Belkıs”
- Cebuano: “Belkıs”
- Chechen: “Белкис”
- Czech: “Belkıs”
- Danish: “Belkıs”
- Dutch: “Belkıs”
- Finnish: “Belkıs”
- French: “Belkıs”
- Galician: “Belkıs”
- German: “Belkıs”
- Indonesian: “Belkıs”
- Italian: “Belkıs”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belkıs”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belkıs”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Belkıs”
- Polish: “Belkıs”
- Portuguese: “Belkıs”
- Romanian: “Belkıs”
- Scots: “Belkıs”
- Slovak: “Belkıs”
- Slovenian: “Belkıs”
- Spanish: “Belkıs”
- Swedish: “Belkıs”
- Tagalog: “Belkıs”
- Tatar: “Белкыс”
- Turkish: “Belkıs, Nizip”
- Turkish: “Belkıs”
- Uzbek: “Belkıs”
- Vietnamese: “Belkıs, Nizip”
- Vietnamese: “Belkıs”
- Waray (Philippines): “Belkıs”
- Yoruba: “Belkıs”
- “Belkıs”
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