INTERNATIONAL 8th USBİLİM EDUCATION, ECONOMY, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CONGRESS
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NAMES OF AMİD AND DIYARBAKIR
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According to Sumerian-Akat documents, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was called “Subartu” and the tribes that settled here were called “Subaru”. A significant part of the region, which the Greeks called “Mesopotamia” and Islamic historical sources called “al- Jazira”, corresponds to Diyarbakır and its surroundings today. The city, which is today called Diyarbakır, has been named in different ways throughout history. A significant part of these names are just the pronunciation of the same name by different nations in different ways. Accordingly, it has been called by different names such as Amid, Amida, O'mid, Emit, Augusta, Karaca Kale, Kara Amid, Kara Hamid and Diyarbekir. It was first written as “Amidi” or “Amedi” on a sword hilt from the Assyrian ruler Adad-Nirari I (1310-1281 BC). In the Islamic 74 period, this name was transformed into “Amid” and used as the name of both the city and the sanjak in which it was the center until the seventeenth century. Diyarbekir, which had been the name of a region since the eighth century, began to be used as the name of the city after the seventeenth century. The name Diyarbekir, which was used for a long time, was changed to Diyarbakır with a law enacted in 1937. There are different opinions on the origin of both Amid and Diyarbekir. This study will examine the historical names of the city known today as Diyarbakır and the different perspectives and considerations regarding these names.
