Turkey
Bitlis Province
Bitlis

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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  • Type: City with 352,000 residents
  • Description: central district and city in Bitlis Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Bitlis City” and “Bitliss”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bitlis Castle.

Castle
Photo: Sabri76, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yolyazı and Ekinli.

Village
is a village in the Bitlis District of in Turkey. Its population is 312.

Village
is a village in the Bitlis District of in Turkey. Its population is 171.

Village
is a village in the Bitlis District of in Turkey. Its population is 502. It was formerly known as Papşin or Papşén. Before the deportations and genocide of the village's Armenian inhabitants, Papşin/Babshen had a population of 325 individuals in 1909.

Bitlis

Latitude
38.4021° or 38° 24′ 7″ north
Longitude
42.1085° or 42° 6′ 30″ east
Population
352,000
Elevation
1,494 metres (4,902 feet)
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”
  • Arabic: “بتليس”
  • Arabic: “بدليس”
  • Arabic: “بَدْلِيسُ”
  • Arabic: “بيطليس”
  • Armenian: “Բաղեշ”
  • Armenian: “Բիթլիս”
  • Armenian: “Սալնոձոր”
  • Asturian: “Bitlis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bitlis”
  • Basque: “Bitlis”
  • Bengali: “বিতলিস”
  • Bulgarian: “Битлис”
  • Catalan: “Bidlis”
  • Catalan: “Bitlis”
  • Cebuano: “Bitlis”
  • Central Kurdish: “بدلیس”
  • Chechen: “Битлис”
  • Chinese: “Bitlis”
  • 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: “Bedlis”
  • Dutch: “Bedlîs”
  • Dutch: “Bilis”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “ביטליס”
  • Hindi: “बिटलीस”
  • Hungarian: “Bitlis”
  • Indonesian: “Bitlis”
  • Italian: “Bitlis”
  • Japanese: “ビトリス”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಟ್ಲಿಸ್”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Akarere ka Bitlis”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bitlis”
  • Korean: “비틀리스”
  • Kurdish: “Bedlis”
  • Kurdish: “Bedlîs”
  • Kurdish: “Betlîs”
  • Kurdish: “Bidlîs”
  • Kurdish: “Bitlis”
  • Kurdish: “Bitlîs”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Битлис”
  • Persian: “بتلیس”
  • Persian: “بدلیس”
  • Polish: “Bitlis”
  • Portuguese: “Badlis”
  • Portuguese: “Balalexe”
  • Portuguese: “Balexe”
  • Portuguese: “Bedlîs”
  • Portuguese: “Beṯ Dlis”
  • Portuguese: “Bilîs”
  • Portuguese: “Bitlis”
  • Portuguese: “Bitlisse”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “Bitlis”

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