Hakkari Attractions

 
Southeast Anatolia (Turkish Kurdistan)

The small provincial capital of Hakkâri lies in the somewhat inaccessible Hakkâri Daglari (High Zap Mountains), 600m/1,969ft above the steep-sided gorge of the upper Büyük Zap (Great Zap). Rising 150km/93mi to the northeast in the mountains on the Iranian frontier, the Zap flows through the heart of untamed Kurdistan to join the Tigris south of Mosul (Iraq). The town and its province are named after a nomadic Kurdish tribe who occupied the area to the south and southeast of Lake Van after the Zengids drove them from Iraq in the 13th century Large parts of this mountainous region are now in Van Province.

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