Yalım
Yalım is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Artuklu, Mardin Province, Turkey. Its population is 25,803. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. It is populated by Kurds of the Daşî and Meşkinan tribes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 21,700 residents
- Description: mahalle (adminstrative quarter) in Artuklu, Mardin, southeastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Mansori”, “Yalim”, and “Yalım, Artuklu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mardin Castle and Great Mosque of Mardin.
Mardin Castle
Castle
Photo: MSinjari, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mardin Castle is a 3,000 year old defensive fortification in the city of Mardin, Turkey. It is known as the Eagle's Nest. The castle has been used as a military base as part of a NATO agreement and hosts a radar station due to its position 1,000 meters above the Mesopotamian plain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mardin and Eryeri.
Mardin
Photo: Nevit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mardin is a historic city in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey. The city is known for its fascinating architecture and location: heavily decorated stone buildings cascading down a mountain, overlooking the vast expanse of the Mesopotamian plains below.
Eryeri
Village
Photo: MikaelF, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eryeri is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Artuklu, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of non-tribal affiliation and had a population of 1,341 in 2021. Eryeri is situated 3½ km south of Yalım.
Acar
Village
Acar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Artuklu, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 172 in 2021. Acar is situated 4 km southwest of Yalım.
Yalım
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Artuklu, Mardin Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.32511° or 37° 19′ 30″ northLongitude
40.73699° or 40° 44′ 13″ eastPopulation
21,700Elevation
934 metres (3,064 feet)Open location code
8H928PGP+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1831989245OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
441840Wikidata ID
Q10836874
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Yalım” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մանսուրիե”
- Chechen: “Йалим”
- German: “Yalım”
- Irish: “Yalım”
- Kurdish: “Mensûryê, Mêrdîn”
- Kurdish: “Mensûryê”
- Tatar: “Ялым”
- Turkish: “Yalım, Artuklu”
- Turkish: “Yalım”
- Uzbek: “Yalım”
- Vietnamese: “Yalım, Mardin”
- Vietnamese: “Yalım”
- “Yalım”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yalım”. Photo: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0.