Çüngüş (,Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla), T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 133. , ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its area is 512 km2, and its population is 10,720 (2022).
Çüngüş was an Armenian bishopric an Armenian Church was constructed in 1841. It was a large and flourishing Armenian town. Besides the church a monastery was located. In 1915, Çüngüş was the site of a massacre during the Armenian genocide in which around 10,000 Armenians living in the area were taken to the Dudan crevasse and murdered by being thrown into the chasm. The massacre was remembered and recorded by the local Kurdish population, and a memorial to victims of the killings was recorded in the film 100 Years Later (2016).
Composition There are 40 neighbourhoods in Çüngüş District:Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
Akbaşak Aktaş Albayrak Arpadere Atalar Avut Aydınlı Balcılar Camiikebir Camiisuk Çataldut Çaybaşı Değirmensuyu Deveboynu Elmadere Elyos Gökçepelit Güneydere Handere Hindibaba Hoya İbikkaya Karakaya Karşıyaka Kaynakköy Keleşevleri Koçören Norşin Ormançayı Oyuklu Polatuşağı Sağtepe Seferuşağı Türkmen Üçpınar Yaygınkonak Yazyağmuru Yenice Yeniköy Yukarışeyhler
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