Acar
Acar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Artuklu, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 172 in 2021.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 188 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Artuklu, Mardin, southeastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Acar, Artuklu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mardin railway station and Mardin Castle.
Mardin railway station
Railway station
Mardin station is a railway station in Mardin on the Mardin-Senyurt Railway Line. The station is located 4.9 km away from 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. Mardin Castle is situated 3½ km northeast of Acar.
Kırklar Kilisesi
Church
Photo: Oystercard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kırklar Kilisesi is a church, which is situated 3 km northeast of Acar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avcılar and Çiftlikköy.
Avcılar
Village
Avcılar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Artuklu, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 243 in 2021.
Çiftlikköy
Village
Çiftlikköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Artuklu, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 311 in 2021. Çiftlikköy is situated 2½ km southeast of Acar.
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.
Acar
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Artuklu, Mardin Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.30066° or 37° 18′ 2″ northLongitude
40.70587° or 40° 42′ 21″ eastPopulation
188Elevation
724 metres (2,375 feet)Open location code
8H928P24+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 2801613800OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
441844Wikidata ID
Q3677748
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yoruba—“Acar” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Acar”
- Catalan: “Acar”
- Cebuano: “Acar”
- Chechen: “Аджар”
- Czech: “Acar”
- Danish: “Acar”
- Dutch: “Acar”
- Finnish: “Acar”
- French: “Acar”
- Galician: “Acar”
- German: “Acar”
- Indonesian: “Acar”
- Irish: “Acar”
- Italian: “Acar”
- Kurdish: “Diyarê Dêrê”
- Kurdish: “دیارێ دێرێ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Acar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Acar”
- Polish: “Acar”
- Portuguese: “Acar”
- Romanian: “Acar”
- Scots: “Acar”
- Slovak: “Acar”
- Slovenian: “Acar”
- Spanish: “Acar”
- Swedish: “Acar”
- Tagalog: “Acar”
- Tatar: “Аҗар”
- Turkish: “Acar, Artuklu”
- Turkish: “Acar”
- Uzbek: “Acar, Artuklu”
- Uzbek: “Acar”
- Vietnamese: “Acar, Mardin”
- Vietnamese: “Acar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Acar”
- Yoruba: “Acar”
- “Acar”
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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 “Acar”. Photo: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0.