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                                             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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