Eğil
Eğil is a town in Southeastern Anatolia, with a predominantly Kurdish population of 4600 in 2022. It's part of Diyarbakır province and easily reached from that city, but has become cut off from the east as a barrage lake now floods the Tigris valley.
- Type: Town with 11,500 residents
- Description: district of Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Aşipalis”, “Egil”, “Eğil (distritu)”, “Eğil district”, “Encil”, “Enigelene”, “إِكِيل”, and “قضاء إكيل”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ilgın and Balım.
Ilgın
Village
Ilgın is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 477 in 2022.
Balım
Village
Balım is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 300 in 2022. Balım is situated 4½ km north of Eğil.
Eğil
- Categories: district of Turkey and locality
- Location: Diyarbakır Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.2576° or 38° 15′ 27″ north
Longitude
40.0845° or 40° 5′ 4″ east
Population
11,500
Elevation
861 metres (2,825 feet)
Open location code
8HC2735M+2R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Eğil” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إكيل”
- Armenian: “Ագիլ”
- Asturian: “Eğil”
- Cebuano: “Eğil İlçesi”
- Central Kurdish: “گێل”
- Chechen: “ЭгӀил”
- Chinese: “埃伊爾”
- Dimli (individual language): “Gêl”
- Dutch: “Eğil”
- French: “Eğil”
- German: “Eğil”
- Greek: “Εγκίλ”
- Greek: “Καρκαθιόκερτα”
- Irish: “Eğil”
- Italian: “Distretto di Eğil”
- Japanese: “エーイル郡”
- Kurdish: “Êgil”
- Kurdish: “Gêl”
- Kurdish: “ئێگل”
- Malay: “Eğil”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Eğil”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eğil”
- Norwegian: “Eğil”
- Persian: “اغیل (ترکیه)”
- Persian: “اغیل”
- Portuguese: “Eğil”
- Portuguese: “Eil”
- Russian: “Эгиль”
- Serbian: “Егил”
- Swahili: “Eğil”
- Tatar: “Егыйл (Эгыйль)”
- Tatar: “Егыйл”
- Turkish: “Eğil”
- Urdu: “اگیل”
- Vietnamese: “Eğil”
- Western Armenian: “Ագել” (historical)
- Western Armenian: “Ակիլ”
- Western Armenian: “Ակլ”
- Western Armenian: “Անգել” (historical)
- Western Armenian: “Անգեղ” (historical)
- Western Armenian: “Էկիլ”
- Western Mari: “Эгиль”
- “Eğil ilçesi”
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Places to explore: Kale and Yenişehir.
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