Diarbekir

A city of Asiatic Turkey, and capital of the pashalic of Diarbekir. This place was succe ively taken, retaken, and destroyed, in the ancient wars between the Persians and Romans. It was pillaged by Tamer lane in the year 1393; and was succe ively taken and retaken by the Persian kings, until it was conquered by Selim, the first sultan of the Osmanli Turks, in the year 1515. In 1605 it again fell into the power of Persia; but it was afterwards retaken by the Turks, under whose dominion it has since continued.