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Bingöl is a small, modern
provincial capital city known mostly
for its earthquakes.
On May 1, 2003, a serious
quake killed over 100 people
and injured 1000. Scores of students
were rescued from a boarding school
flattened by the quake, but scores
of others were killed by the collapse.
Modern Bingöl (alt.
1150 meters/3773 feet, pop. 50,000)
dates only from 1935, when it was founded
near the village of Çapakçur,
near the intersection of the Elazig-Tatvan
and Erzurum-Diyarbakir roads.
Although the small city itself is
new, this area has been inhabited for
over 4000 years.
There's an Urartian
fortress 20 km (12 miles) south
in the Murat River valley, a ski
area 22 km (14 miles) west off
the Elazig road, and the Kös
hot springs 18 km (11 miles)
NE at Fahran.
Distances & Travel Times
Ankara: 868
km (539 miles) W, 13 hours
Diyarbakir: 140
km (87 miles) S, 2 hours
Elazig: 146 km (91 miles) W,
2 hours
Erzurum: 179
km (111 miles) E, 3 hours
Istanbul: 1312
km (815 miles) W, 20 hours
Malatya: 245
km (152 miles) W, 4 hours
Mus: 110 km (68 miles) E, 1.5
hours
Van: 338
km (210 miles) E, 5 hours
Eastern Turkey
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