Turkey
Şırnak Province
Cizre İlçesi

Cizre

Cizre is a city in the Cizre District of in . It is located on the river by the Syria–Turkey border and close to the Iraq–Turkey border.
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  • Type: Town with 155,000 residents
  • Description: town and district of Şırnak Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey
  • Also known as: “Beit Zabde”, “Dzhizre”, “Jazirhe-a-ibn-a Omar”, “Jesıret ibn Omar”, and “Jizre”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Citadel of Cizre and Red Madrasa of Cizre.

Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a castle.

Photo: MikaelF, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Archaeological site
Photo: Zoeperkoe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as the Zangid Bridge, is a ruined masonry arch bridge in Cizre, 3.5 km northeast of the town of Ain Diwar, . The bridge is within vicinity of the Syria, and border region and about 500 m west of the Tigris River which it previously crossed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bozalan and Çatalköy.

Village
is a village in the Cizre District of in . The village is populated by Kurds of the Tayan tribe and had a population of 1,158 in 2021. is situated 4½ km east of Cizre.

Suburb
is a village in the Cizre District of in . The village is populated by Kurds of the Kiçan and Meman tribes and had a population of 204 in 2021.

Suburb
is a village in the Cizre District of in . The village is populated by Kurds of the Botikan tribe and had a population of 6,090 in 2021.

Cizre

Latitude
37.3324° or 37° 19′ 57″ north
Longitude
42.1855° or 42° 11′ 8″ east
Population
155,000
Elevation
380 metres (1,247 feet)
IATA airport code
NKT
United Nations Location Code
TR CZE
Open location code
8H9485JP+X5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130188991
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
318253
Wiki­data ID
Q821363
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Cizre” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجزيرة”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة ابن عمر”
  • Arabic: “قضاء الجزيرة”
  • Arabic: “قضاء جزيرة ابن عمر”
  • Armenian: “Գզիրա”
  • Armenian: “Ջեզիրե”
  • Armenian: “Ջիզրե”
  • Asturian: “Cizre (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Cizre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cizrə”
  • Basque: “Cizre”
  • Catalan: “Bezabde”
  • Catalan: “Cizre”
  • Catalan: “Djazirat Ibn Umar”
  • Catalan: “Jazirat ibn Úmar”
  • Cebuano: “Cizre”
  • Central Kurdish: “جزیر”
  • Central Kurdish: “جزیری بۆتان”
  • Central Kurdish: “جەزیرەی ئیبن عومەر”
  • Chechen: “Джизре”
  • Chinese: “吉兹莱”
  • Chinese: “吉兹雷”
  • Chinese: “吉茲雷”
  • Czech: “Cizre”
  • Danish: “Cizre”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cizra”
  • Dutch: “Cizre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة ابن عمر”
  • Esperanto: “Cizîr”
  • Esperanto: “Cizîra Botan”
  • Esperanto: “Cizre”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝazīrat Ibn ʿUmar”
  • French: “Cizre”
  • Gagauz: “Cizre”
  • German: “Cizîr”
  • German: “Cizre”
  • Gilaki: “جزیره (تۊرکيه)”
  • Gilaki: “جزیره”
  • Greek: “Τζίζρε”
  • Hebrew: “ג’יזרה”
  • Hungarian: “Cizre”
  • Indonesian: “Cizre”
  • Irish: “Cizre”
  • Italian: “Bezabde”
  • Italian: “Cizre”
  • Italian: “Jazirat Ibn ‘Umar”
  • Japanese: “シズレ”
  • Japanese: “ジズレ”
  • Japanese: “ジズレ川”
  • Kazakh: “Джизре”
  • Kazakh: “Жазира”
  • Kazakh: “Жизре”
  • Korean: “지즈레”
  • Kurdish: “Cizir”
  • Kurdish: “Cizîr”
  • Kurdish: “Cizîra Botan”
  • Kurdish: “Cîzîra Botan”
  • Kurdish: “Cizîre”
  • Kurdish: “Cizîrê”
  • Kurdish: “Cizre”
  • Kurdish: “جزیر”
  • Lithuanian: “Čizrė”
  • Malay: “Cizre”
  • Mazanderani: “جزیره”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cizre”
  • Minangkabau: “Cizre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cizre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cizre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gazarta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jazīrat ibn ʿUmar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jezira ibn Umar”
  • Norwegian: “Cizre”
  • Persian: “جزیره ابن عمر”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ ابن عمر”
  • Persian: “جزیره”
  • Polish: “Cizre”
  • Portuguese: “Cizre”
  • Romanian: “Cizre”
  • Russian: “Джизре”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cizîr”
  • Serbian: “Cizre”
  • Serbian: “Džizre”
  • Serbian: “Чизре”
  • Serbian: “Џизре”
  • Silesian: “Cizre”
  • Slovak: “Cizre”
  • Slovenian: “Cizre”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جیزره”
  • Spanish: “Cizre”
  • Swahili: “Cizre”
  • Swedish: “Cizre”
  • Tatar: “Җизрә”
  • Tatar: “Җизре”
  • Turkish: “Cezire-i İbn-i Ömer”
  • Turkish: “Cezire”
  • Turkish: “Cizre”
  • Ukrainian: “Джизре”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ ابن عمر”
  • Venetian: “Cizre”
  • Vietnamese: “Cizre”
  • Western Mari: “Джизре”
  • Western Panjabi: “سزرے”
  • “Cizre”

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