Durak

Durak is a village in , and has about 480 residents. Durak is situated nearby to the village , as well as near .
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ömerli and Karaotlak.

Village
, formerly known as Amara, is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . 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. is situated 4½ km north of Durak.

Suburb
is a suburb, which is situated 5 km south of Durak.

Locality
Photo: Ferrus, Public domain.
is a ruined fortress on the , located in the province of and 50 km west of Şanlıurfa. Although 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. is situated 9 km west of Durak.

Durak

Latitude
37.28008° or 37° 16′ 48″ north
Longitude
37.94245° or 37° 56′ 33″ east
Population
480
Elevation
623 metres (2,044 feet)
Open location code
8G9V7WJR+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1069324685
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
323734
Wiki­data 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
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