Durak
Durak is a village in Halfeti, Şanlıurfa Province and has about 480 residents. Durak is situated nearby to the village Ortayol, as well as near Saylakkaya.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ömerli and Karaotlak.
Ömerli
Village
Ömerli, formerly known as Amara, is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Halfeti, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its population is 545. The village is the birthplace of Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, who was born there on April 4, 1949. Ömerli is situated 4½ km north of Durak.
Karaotlak
Suburb
Photo: Ferrus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karaotlak is a suburb, which is situated 5 km south of Durak.
Rumkale
Locality
Photo: Ferrus, Public domain.
Rumkale is a ruined fortress on the Euphrates, located in the province of Gaziantep and 50 km west of Şanlıurfa. Although Rumkale is sometimes linked with places mentioned in ancient sources, the foundations of the structure can be traced back to the Byzantine rule the earliest, when the fortress was the seat of a Syriac Orthodox bishopric. Rumkale is situated 9 km west of Durak.
Durak
- Type: Village with 480 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Halfeti, Şanlıurfa, southeastern Turkey
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Halfeti, Şanlıurfa Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.28008° or 37° 16′ 48″ northLongitude
37.94245° or 37° 56′ 33″ eastPopulation
480Elevation
623 metres (2,044 feet)Open location code
8G9V7WJR+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1069324685OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
323734Wikidata ID
Q6771477
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yoruba—“Durak” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Durak”
- Catalan: “Durak”
- Cebuano: “Durak”
- Chechen: “Дурак”
- Czech: “Durak”
- Danish: “Durak”
- Dutch: “Durak”
- Finnish: “Durak”
- French: “Durak”
- German: “Durak”
- Indonesian: “Durak”
- Italian: “Durak”
- Kurdish: “Aram, Xelfetî”
- Kurdish: “Aram”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Durak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Durak”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Durak”
- Polish: “Durak”
- Portuguese: “Durak”
- Romanian: “Durak”
- Slovak: “Durak”
- Slovenian: “Durak”
- Spanish: “Durak”
- Swedish: “Durak”
- Tagalog: “Durak”
- Tatar: “Дурак (Һалфети)”
- Tatar: “Дурак”
- Turkish: “Durak, Halfeti”
- Turkish: “Durak”
- Vietnamese: “Durak, Halfeti”
- Vietnamese: “Durak”
- Waray (Philippines): “Durak”
- Yoruba: “Durak”
- “Durak”
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