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Bitlis

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English

Proper noun

Bitlis

  2. A province in southeastern Turkey.
  4. A district of Bitlis Province, Turkey.
  6. A municipality, the capital of Bitlis district and Bitlis Province, Turkey.
    • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 293:
      They are alſo Lords of Bitlis, and ſome other Cities and holds in thoſe parts.

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Turkish

 Bitlis on Turkish Wikipedia

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بتلیس (Bitlis).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bit.lis/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Bi‧tlis

Proper noun

Bitlis

  1. Bitlis (a province in southeastern Turkey)
  2. Bitlis (a district of Bitlis Province, Turkey)
  3. Bitlis (a municipality, the capital of Bitlis district and Bitlis Province, Turkey)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

  • Bitlisli

See also

provinces of Turkeyedit
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