Gercüş

Gercüş
Gercüş
	Gercüş
	Coordinates: 37°33′59″N 41°23′04″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Batman
Government
• Mayor	Abdulkerim Kaya (BDP)
• Kaymakam	Tarkan Keskin
Area [1]
• District	826.04 km2 (318.94 sq mi)
Population (2012)[2]
• Urban	4,725
• District	22,183
• District density	27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Website	www.gercus.bel.tr

Gercüş (Kurdish: Kercews‎,[3], Syriac: "ܟܦܪ ܓܘ̈ܙܐ" "Kfar Gawze"[4] or "ܟܦܪ ܓܘܣܢ" "Kfar Gawson") is a district of Batman Province, Turkey. The mayor is Abdulkerim Kaya (BDP).

The town of Gercus is said to be built by a wealthy Roman soldier named "Gawson" who named the village after him.[5]

References

"Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
"Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
Talmon, Daniella (1996). Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East. p. 81. ISBN 978-90-04-27159-3.
N.Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur `Abdin. Press syndicate of Cambridge university. p. 54. ISBN 9780521360265.

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[distr-area-1] "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.

[population-2] "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.

[3] Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56. Retrieved 17 December 2019.

[4] Talmon, Daniella (1996). Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East. p. 81. ISBN 978-90-04-27159-3.

[5] N.Palmer, Andrew (1990). Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur `Abdin. Press syndicate of Cambridge university. p. 54. ISBN 9780521360265.