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Dura, Kızıltepe

mahalle (administrative quarter) in Kızıltepe, Mardin, southeastern Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ10756677 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dura (Kurdish: Tileckê) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Kızıltepe, Mardin Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Xalecan tribe and had a population of 74 in 2021.

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“Dura, Kızıltepe” enters the record as mahalle (administrative quarter) in Kızıltepe, Mardin, southeastern Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dura, Kızıltepe and mahalle can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dura, Kızıltepe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.