Jizre ( tur. Cizre ) is a city and district in the province of Shirnak ( Turkey ).
| City | |
| Jizzre | |
|---|---|
| tour. Cizre | |
| A country |  Turkey |
| Status | district center |
| Silt | Sirnak |
| Kaymakam | Cihan Dimirkhan |
| History and Geography | |
| Square | 468 km² |
| Center height | |
| Timezone | UTC + 2 , in summer UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 94,076 people ( 2008 ) |
| Agglomeration | 110.267 |
| Official language | Turkish |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +90 486 |
| Postal codes | 73XXX |
| Car code | 73 |
| cizre.gov.tr (tour.) | |
History
The city is surrounded by the Tigris in the north, east and south, therefore its name means "island" in Arabic (جزيرة, Jazīra) and Syriac (ܓܙܝܪܐ , Gzirā). In Syriac manuscripts it is known as Ghazarta (ܓܙܪܬܐ), which also means "island". During the early Iron Age, the city was located in the kingdom of Kummi , north of Assyria . In classical antiquity, he was in Korduyen (Kardu). Subsequently, the city was part of different states, for a long time there was the residence of the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East ; in the XVI century, he fell into the Ottoman Empire .
In March 2016, the Turkish army conducted a military operation in the city, in which it killed more than 100 armed people from the Kurdish Workers Party [1] .