Bingol

Bingol is a city in Eastern Turkey. It is encompassed by mountains and a substantial number of icy mass lakes, consequently the name, Turkish for a thousand lakes. Recently, the town has turned into a mainstream traveler goal. As indicated by 2017 assessments, it has a populace of more than 111.000. Bingol is the capital of Bingol Province, one of the 81 territories of Turkey.

On May 1, 2003 the entire region experienced a size 6.4 quake, leaving 177 dead and 520 harmed. On 8 March 2010, the region endured another quake, of size 5.9, with its epicenter in Elazıg Province, 45 km west of Bingol. In the Middle Ages, Bingol was known as Romanoupolis after the Byzantine ruler Romanos I Lekapenos, who consolidated it for all time into the Byzantine Empire in 942. It at first shaped a subdivision of the thema of Mesopotamia, yet it was later hoisted into a different topic.

Until the center of the twentieth century, the city was known as Capakcur/Cabakcur, as per its Armenian name of Chapaghjur. The place was then renamed Bingol, a term of Turkish starting point interpreting as "thousand lakes". Bingol is 144 km east of Elazıg and is arranged in the high area of Eastern Anatolia. Bingol is a bumpyarea with heights reaching 10,000 feet. The Gayt River, a right-bank tributary of the Eastern Euphrates.