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  • ...kr Bin Vail, who named the city Diyar Bakr, meaning "the country of Bakr", i.e. Arabs. Much later, in the Republican era, the city got its current name ...turbulence in the 20th century, particularly with the onset of [[World War I]]. The majority of the city's Syriac and Armenian population were massacred
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