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Braised Meat with Quince
Aramaic Church of the Virgin Mary South of town at the Dicle Bridge, built
(Meryemana Kilisesi), which is still in in 1065, you can take a great picture of
use today, also makes for an interesting the Dicle River, the bridge and the city
visit. As an example of early domestic walls.
architecture, the restored home of the
author Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı makes it In Silvan, 77km east of Diyarbakır, you
Dicle Bridge surely worth a visit. are recommended to stop at the graceful
Ulu Mosque, which dates from 1185, to
The Deliller Han of 1527, converted and admire the fine flowing lines of stone-
refurbished into a hotel, re-creates the relief work that outline the pointed
atmosphere of the days when trading arch portal. Çayönü, one of the earliest
caravans stopped in Diyarbakır. Just Neolithic settlements yet to be
outside the city walls by the river discovered, dates from the seventh
stands Atatürk’s house, now a museum. millennium BC.
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