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Municipality in Batman Province, Turkey
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Batman is a city in Southeastern Anatolia, with a population of 492,000 in 2023. It's the chief city of an oil-producing area and is entirely modern. It's pronounced baat-maan, not like the name of the superhero, and in Kurdish is known by its older name of Iluh.
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Archaeological museum with three halls: one for the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, a second with items from the Ilısu Dam excavations and a third for the drowned village of Hasankeyf.
Spacious canteen with trad dishes.
Clean central hotel.
Modern hotel in a quiet area.
Comfy place at Dörtyol the main city roundabout.
Good scores for comfort, cleanliness and food.
Reasonably modern and comfy.
Comfy business hotel near the airport turn-off.
By road
Batman is 100 km east of Diyarbakır on Highway D-370. This continues east eventually to join D-400 to the borders of Syria and Iran.
By bus
Buses from Istanbul run daily and take 22 hours via Gebze, Ankara, Osmaniye, Gaziantep, Urfa and Diyarbakır.
By rail
Güney Kurtalan Ekspresi runs five days a week from Ankara, taking 25 hours via Malatya and Diyarbakır. It arrives around 12:30 (often way late) then continues for another 1 hr 40 min to Kurtalan.
Buses, dolmuşes and taxis ply the main streets of this sprawling town.
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