Ergani


Ergani, formerly known as Arghni or Arghana, is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,510 km2, and its population is 136,099. Ergani District is located in the administrative as the Southeastern Anatolia Region, but as a geographical region it is located in Eastern Anatolia. The mayor is Ahmet Kaya since 2019. Ahmet Karaaslan was appointed as the District Governor.

History

Trade has flourished between Ergani and Mesopotamia during the third millennium BC. Ergani has a rich history of being a copper mining region. Copper supplied the entire region from Anatolia, Northern Levant to Upper Mesopotamia, but most importantly down the Euphrates river to Lower Mesopotamia.
Nearby sites important for the copper industry was Arslandtepe to the west and Norsun Tepe to the east. This region eventually produced arsenical copper, where the copper was added with arsenic. Arsenic is highly poisonous and was later replaced by tin.

Çayönü

Near the village of Sesverenpınar, among the Hilar rocks Çayönü hill was first settled in c. 7500 BC, and was continuously inhabited until 5000 BC. Remains have been found from the earlier habitation, one of the most important archaeological finds of its era.

Education

There is 107 elementary schools, and 3 Anatolian high schools in Ergani. There is also a Dicle University Vocational School in Ergani.

Composition

There are 102 neighbourhoods in Ergani District:
Ergani has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate.