Bitlis

Bitlis is a city in southeastern . It is the seat of Bitlis District and . Its population is 53,023. The city is located at an elevation of 1,545 metres, 15 km from , in the steep-sided valley of the Bitlis River, a tributary of the Tigris.
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  • City with about 52,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,500 metres (4,920 feet)
  • Description: central district and city in Bitlis Province, Turkey
  • Also known as
    “Bitlis City”
    “Bitliss”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bitlis Castle and Great Mosque of Bitlis.
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is a historic building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yolyazı and Ekinli.
is a village in the Bitlis District of in Turkey.
is a village in the Bitlis District of in Turkey.
is a village in the Bitlis District of in Turkey.

Bitlis

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Latitude
38.4021° or 38° 24′ 7″ north
Longitude
42.1085° or 42° 6′ 30″ east
Open location code
8HC4C425+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26486498
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
321025
Wiki­data ID
Q83531

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Wu Chinese—“Bitlis” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Биҭлис”
  • Albanian: “Bitlis”
  • Amharic: “ቢትሊስ”
  • Arabic: “بتليس”
  • Arabic: “بَدْلِيسُ”
  • Arabic: “بيطليس”
  • Armenian: “Բաղեշ”
  • Armenian: “Բիթլիս”
  • Armenian: “Սալնոձոր”
  • Asturian: “Bitlis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bitlis”
  • Basque: “Bitlis”
  • Belarusian: “Бітліс”
  • Bengali: “বিটলিস”
  • Bengali: “বিতলিস”
  • Bulgarian: “Битлис”
  • Catalan: “Bidlis”
  • Catalan: “Bitlis”
  • Cebuano: “Bitlis”
  • Central Kurdish: “بدلیس”
  • Chechen: “Битлис”
  • Chinese: “比特利斯”
  • Classical Syriac: “ܒܝܬ ܕܠܝܣ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bitlis”
  • Czech: “Bitlis”
  • Danish: “Bitlis”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bıdlis”
  • Dutch: “Baghaghesh”
  • Dutch: “Baghesh”
  • Dutch: “Bedlîs”
  • Dutch: “Bilîs”
  • Dutch: “Bitlis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بدليس”
  • Esperanto: “Bitlis”
  • Finnish: “Bitlis”
  • French: “Bitlis”
  • Gagauz: “Bitlis”
  • Georgian: “ბითლისი”
  • German: “Bagesh”
  • German: “Bedlis”
  • German: “Bitlis”
  • Gilaki: “بدليس”
  • Greek: “Μπιτλίς”
  • Gujarati: “બિટલીસ”
  • Hausa: “Bitlis”
  • Hebrew: “ביטליס”
  • Hindi: “बिटलिस”
  • Hungarian: “Bitlis”
  • Indonesian: “Bitlis”
  • Italian: “Bitlis”
  • Japanese: “ビトリス”
  • Javanese: “Bitlis”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಟ್ಲಿಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Битлис”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Akarere ka Bitlis”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bitlis”
  • Kirghiz: “Битлис”
  • Korean: “비틀리스”
  • Kurdish: “Bedlîs”
  • Kurdish: “Betlîs”
  • Kurdish: “Bidlîs”
  • Kurdish: “Bîtlîs”
  • Kurdish: “Dîroka Bedlîsê”
  • Latvian: “Bitlisa”
  • Lithuanian: “Bitlisas”
  • Malay: “Bitlis”
  • Marathi: “बिटलिस”
  • Mazanderani: “بدلیس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bitlis”
  • Minangkabau: “Bitlis”
  • Moksha: “Битлис”
  • Nauru: “Bitlis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bitlis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bitlis”
  • Norwegian: “Bitlis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bitlis”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܝܬ ܕܠܝܣ”
  • Oromo: “Bitlis”
  • Ossetian: “Битлис”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਿਟਲਿਸ”
  • Persian: “بتلیس”
  • Persian: “بدلیس”
  • Polish: “Bitlis”
  • Portuguese: “Badlis”
  • Portuguese: “Balalexe”
  • Portuguese: “Balexe”
  • Portuguese: “Bedlîs”
  • Portuguese: “Beṯ Dlis”
  • Portuguese: “Bilîs”
  • Portuguese: “Bitlis”
  • Portuguese: “Bitlisse”
  • Pushto: “بتلیس”
  • Romanian: “Bitlis”
  • Russian: “Бедлис”
  • Russian: “Битлис или Бедлис”
  • Russian: “Битлис”
  • Scots: “Bitlis”
  • Serbian: “Багеш” (historical)
  • Serbian: “Битлис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bitlis”
  • Sinhala: “බිටිලිස්”
  • Slovak: “Bitlis”
  • Slovenian: “Bitlis”
  • Somali: “Bitlis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بتلیس”
  • Spanish: “Bitlis”
  • Swahili: “Bitlis”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Bitlis”
  • Swedish: “Bitlis”
  • Tajik: “Битлис”
  • Talysh: “Bitlis”
  • Tamil: “பிட்லிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Битлис”
  • Telugu: “బిట్లిస్”
  • Thai: “Bitlis Province, Ottoman Empire”
  • Thai: “Bitlis”
  • Thai: “บิตลิส”
  • Turkish: “Bitlis Merkez”
  • Turkish: “Bitlis”
  • Udmurt: “Битлис”
  • Ukrainian: “Бітліс”
  • Urdu: “بتلیس”
  • Urdu: “بدلیس”
  • Uzbek: “Bitlis”
  • Vietnamese: “Bitlis”
  • Volapük: “Bitlis”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bitlis”
  • Western Armenian: “Բաղէշ”
  • Western Armenian: “Պիթլիս”
  • Western Mari: “Битлис”
  • Western Panjabi: “بتلیس”
  • Western Panjabi: “بلتس”
  • Wu Chinese: “比特利斯”

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Notable Places Nearby

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