Turkey
Şanlıurfa Province
Birecik District

Birecik

Birecik is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 912 km2, and its population is 93,866. It lies on the . Built on a limestone cliff 400 ft. high on the left/east bank of the Euphrates, "at the upper part of a reach…
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  • Type: Town with 93,700 residents
  • Description: district and town of Şanlıurfa, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Apamea”, “Birejik”, and “Birijik”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birecik Kalesi and Hacınebi mound.

Castle
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a castle.

Archaeological site
Photo: Kpisimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an archaeological site, which is situated 3 km north of Birecik.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saray and Suboyu.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . The village had a population of 571 in 2022.

Village
, historically Kefre, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . The village is inhabited by Turkmens of the Barak tribe and had a population of 1,355 in 2022. is situated 2½ km southwest of Birecik.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . The village is inhabited by Turkmens of the Barak tribe and had a population of 341 in 2022. is situated 5 km south of Birecik.

Birecik

Latitude
37.03153° or 37° 1′ 54″ north
Longitude
37.98003° or 37° 58′ 48″ east
Population
93,700
Elevation
351 metres (1,152 feet)
Open location code
8G9V2XJJ+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 125561825
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
321062
Wiki­data ID
Q849497
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Birecik” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “البيرة”
  • Arabic: “بيراجك”
  • Arabic: “بيره جوك”
  • Asturian: “Birecik (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Birecik”
  • Azerbaijani: “Birecik”
  • Catalan: “Al-Bira”
  • Catalan: “Bile”
  • Catalan: “Bira”
  • Catalan: “Birecik”
  • Catalan: “Biredjik”
  • Catalan: “Macedonòpolis”
  • Cebuano: “Birecik”
  • Central Kurdish: “بێرەجووک”
  • Chechen: “Биреджик”
  • Chinese: “Birecik”
  • Chinese: “比雷吉克”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bêrecuğe”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Birecik”
  • Dutch: “Birecik”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البيره”
  • Esperanto: “Birecik”
  • French: “Birecik”
  • Gagauz: “Birecik”
  • German: “Birecik”
  • Gilaki: “بيره‌جک”
  • Greek: “Βίρθα”
  • Indonesian: “Birecik”
  • Irish: “Birecik”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Birecik”
  • Japanese: “ビラディック”
  • Japanese: “ビレジク・ダム”
  • Japanese: “ビレジク”
  • Japanese: “ビレジク”
  • Kazakh: “Биреджик”
  • Kurdish: “Bêrecûg”
  • Kurdish: “Bêrecûk”
  • Kurdish: “Bîracik”
  • Kurdish: “Birecik”
  • Kurdish: “بێرەجووگ”
  • Lithuanian: “Birečikas”
  • Macedonian: “Биреџик”
  • Malay: “Birecik”
  • Mazanderani: “بیره‌جک”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Birecik”
  • Minangkabau: “Birecik”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birecik”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birecik”
  • Norwegian: “Birecik”
  • Persian: “بیره جک”
  • Persian: “بیرهٔ جک”
  • Persian: “بیره‌جک”
  • Polish: “Birecik”
  • Romanian: “Birecik”
  • Russian: “Биреджик”
  • Scots: “Birecik”
  • Serbian: “Биреџик”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیره جیک”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیره‌جیک”
  • Spanish: “Birecik”
  • Swahili: “Birecik”
  • Swedish: “Birecik”
  • Tatar: “Биреҗик (Биреҗык)”
  • Tatar: “Биреҗик”
  • Turkish: “Birecik”
  • Urdu: “بیرہ جک”
  • Vietnamese: “Birecik”
  • Western Mari: “Биреджик”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع بریجک”

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