Cizre

Turkey / Sirnak / Cizre /
Cizre (pronounced [ˈdʒizɾe]; Kurdish: Cizîr‎, Classical Syriac: ܓܙܝܪܐ‎ Gzirā or Gziro) is a town and district of Şırnak Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, on the Turkey-Syria border.

Cizre has a mediterranean climate (Csa in the Köppen climate classification) with wet, mild, rarely snowy winters and dry, extremely hot summers. Cizre has a mean temperature of 6.8°C in coldest month and a mean temperature of 34.2°C in hottest month. The highest temperature ever recorded in Cizre was 49°C, which is the highest temperature ever recorded in Turkey.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cizre
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Coordinates:   37°20'5"N   42°11'31"E