Çukurca
Çukurca (Kurdish: Çel,[2][3] Syriac: ܛܝܵܪܹܐ, romanized: Ṭyārē, Lishanid Noshan: גיאלא)[4] is a municipality (belde) and seat of Çukurca District in Hakkâri Province of Turkey.[5] The city is populated by Kurds of the Ertoşî and Pinyanişî tribes and had a population of 1,0252 in 2023.[1][6] The mayor is Ensar Dündar from Justice and Development Party since 2019.[7]
Neighborhoods
Çukurca is divided into the three neighborhoods of Cumhuriyet, Emirşaban and Yeşilçeşme.[5]
Jews
Northeastern Jewish Aramaic-speaking Jews lived here historically; most fled during Sayfo, and the last remaining members of the community emigrated to Israel in 1951.[8]
Population
Population history from 2007 to 2023:[1]
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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2007 | 7,033 | — |
2012 | 8,247 | +17.3% |
2017 | 8,547 | +3.6% |
2022 | 7,485 | −12.4% |
2023 | 10,252 | +37.0% |
Climate
Çukurca has a hot-summer subtype (Köppen: Dsa) of the humid continental climate.
Climate data for Çukurca | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.1 (39.4) | 5.7 (42.3) | 10.2 (50.4) | 16.0 (60.8) | 23.3 (73.9) | 29.9 (85.8) | 34.5 (94.1) | 34.4 (93.9) | 30.4 (86.7) | 22.6 (72.7) | 13.6 (56.5) | 6.4 (43.5) | 19.3 (66.7) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.0 (32.0) | 1.3 (34.3) | 5.5 (41.9) | 10.9 (51.6) | 17.3 (63.1) | 23.0 (73.4) | 27.4 (81.3) | 27.2 (81.0) | 23.1 (73.6) | 16.2 (61.2) | 8.6 (47.5) | 2.5 (36.5) | 13.6 (56.5) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −4.0 (24.8) | −3.0 (26.6) | 0.9 (33.6) | 5.9 (42.6) | 11.3 (52.3) | 16.2 (61.2) | 20.3 (68.5) | 20.0 (68.0) | 15.8 (60.4) | 9.9 (49.8) | 3.7 (38.7) | −1.3 (29.7) | 8.0 (46.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 111 (4.4) | 146 (5.7) | 142 (5.6) | 131 (5.2) | 59 (2.3) | 2 (0.1) | 1 (0.0) | 1 (0.0) | 3 (0.1) | 41 (1.6) | 98 (3.9) | 108 (4.3) | 843 (33.2) |
Source: Climate-Data.org[9] |
References
- ^ a b c "Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters". TÜİK. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ Fassberg, Steven E. (2010). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa. Leiden: Brill. p. 1. ISBN 9789004176829.
[T]he village is so named because it is located in a geophysical depression
- ^ "Şemdinli köylerinin Kürtçe, Türkçe ve Eski isimleri". Yüksekova Haber (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 12 April 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ Maclean, Arthur John (1895). Grammar of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 241.
- ^ a b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 215.
- ^ "Hakkari Çukurca Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
- ^ Fassberg, Steven E. (2010). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa. Leiden: Brill. pp. 3–4. ISBN 9789004176829.
- ^ "Climate:Çukurca". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
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