Savur

Savur (Arabic صاور, DMG Sāwr, Kurdish Stewr or Stewrê) is a municipality (belediye) in the Ilçe (county) of the same name in the province of Mardin in the Turkish region of Southeast Anatolia and at the same time a borough of the Büyükşehir belediyesi Mardin (metropolitan municipality/metropolitan province) formed in 2012. Since the territorial reform from 2013, the municipality is identical to the district in terms of area and population.

Savur is located in the north of the province and borders Batman province to the east and Diyarbakır province to the north and west. To the south, Artuklu, Ömerli, Yeşilli and Midyat are its neighbors. The county is inhabited by Turks, Arabs and Kurds.

Savur (see Savur Çayı) is also the name of a tributary of the Tigris.

The district (or Kaza as its predecessor) existed before the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 and had 28,663 inhabitants in 102 villages (on 855 km²) at the first census in 1927, of which 2,352 inhabitants were in the administrative seat. The year (1884) present in an alternative city logo is likely to refer to the year of its designation as a municipality (Belediye).

(Until) the end of 2012, in addition to the county seat, the county consisted of the three municipalities of Pınardere, Sürgücü and Yeşilalan, as well as 35 villages (Köy) in two Bucaks, which were transferred to Mahalle (neighborhoods/districts) during the 2013/2014 administrative reform. The three existing mahalle of the county seat were retained, while the six mahalle of the three other belediye mentioned above were united and combined into one mahalle each. By downgrading these belediye and villages to mahalle, their number increased to 41. They are headed by a Muhtar as the highest official.

At the end of 2020, an average of 637 people lived in each mahalle, with 3,048 residents in the most populous (Safa Mah. ).

·         Photographic impressions from Savur

Personalities

• Aziz Sancar (* 1946), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2015
• Mithat Sancar (* 1963), lawyer, university lecturer and politician (HDP)
• Arif Taşdelen (* 1974), German politician