Official name | Cizre |
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Pushpin map | Turkey |
Map caption | Location of Cizre in Turkey |
Coordinates region | TR |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Subdivision type1 | Region |
Subdivision name1 | Southeastern Anatolia |
Subdivision type2 | Province |
Subdivision name2 | Şırnak |
Area magnitude | 400 |
Area total km2 | 460 |
Population as of | 2000 |
Population urban | 94835 |
Timezone | EET |
Utc offset | +2 |
Timezone dst | EEST |
Utc offset dst | +3 |
Coordinates display | displayinline,title |
Postal code type | Postal code |
Postal code | 73xxx |
Area code | +(90)486 |
Website | www.yerelnet.org.tr |
Footnotes | }} |
Cizre (; , ''Gozarto'') is a town and district of Şırnak Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, located at the border to Syria, just to the north-west of the Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi tripoint. It is populated by a majority of Kurds and Assyrian/Syriac people in addition to Arabs. It is surrouneded by the Tigris from the North, East and South, thus gaining its names, which means island in Arabic.
Cizre is historical Jazīrat ibn ʿUmar (or ''Jezira ibn Umar'' or ''Gazarta'') , an important town during the Abbasid period and the Crusades as a gateway connecting Upper Mesopotamia to Armenia. During the Early Iron Age, Cizre was in the kingdom of Kumme, north of Assyria. In classical antiquity, it was located in Corduene (''Kardu''). In 19th century scholarship, it was often named as the location of Alexander's crossing of the Tigris in 331 BC, further identified with the Roman stronghold of Bezabde although Stein (1942) is sceptical of this.
In medieval Islamic tradition, it is the location of ''Thamanin'', the town founded by Noah at the foot of Mount Judi where the Ark came to rest, and a "tomb of Noah" as well as a "tomb of Mem and Zin" can be visited in Cizre. Al-Masudi (d. 956) reports that the spot where the ark landed could still be seen in his time. Benjamin of Tudela in the 12th century adds that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb had made the remnants of the ark into a mosque.
Cizre was the seat of the East Syrian bishops of Beth Zabdaï (later Gazarta d'Beth Zabdaï) as early as the fourth century, and the seat of the Chaldean bishops of Gazarta in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The East Syrian population of the Gazarta region was severely reduced in the 1915 Armenian massacres, and the Chaldean diocese of Gazarta lapsed after the First World War.
Cizre is located on the River Tigris, which forms the border line with Syria at this area. The state roads (via Midyat) and (European route ) (via Nusaybin) that connect Mardin with Şırnak, as well as the route to Silopi run through the town.
The border checkpoint in Cizre, the gate to Malikiye in Syria, was in use between 1940-1972.
Cizre, with +48.6°C (119.5°F) on July 30, 2000, holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Turkey.
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