Places to visit in Şırnak
3 places from Şırnak province are on the map: Mount Cudi, Şırnak, and Cizre & the Tigris. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Mount Cudi
“I gave cradles to Noah, / Swings and hammocks, / Your Mother Eve is but a child of yesterday, / I am Anatolia, / Do you know me?” writes the Diyarbakır poet Ahmed Arif in his poem…
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Can a city’s name tell its story? According to a tale often told to visitors to Şırnak, the city’s name comes from “Şehr-i Nuh”, that is, “the city of Noah”. This, they say, was one of the…
See on the map →Cizre & the Tigris
Have you ever imagined that a love story could become a city’s destiny? In Cizre, this question is spoken together with the names of Mem and Zin. Put into verse by Ahmed-i Hânî in the 17th…
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