@article{2016,title={Toponimical Analysis of Siverek Villages},abstractNode={Siverek, a district of Şanlıurfa province, is located in the Middle Fırat Section of Southeast Anatolia Region. One of the important topics of our national culture is to give names to settlements. Toponomi, which take part in science of names disciplines, become more important with regard to bringing a piece of land to a homeland. Throughout the history, Siverek had stayed under sovereignty of different states. Whenever the people of Siverek needed to transform the place that they live to a country by giving new names to the mountains, plains and rivers in the wide geography that the people are located in. Actually, the names of places were not affected only by the residents; they were also influenced by the natural features of the region such as structure of ground, climate conditions, flora and living things, economic and cultural products. Under this influence, places have been named and the names of places, living things and environment have created an integrity. In this article, the names of neighborhoods in Siverek have been tried to classify geographically in terms of physical, social and economic characteristics. By doing this, it is aimed to contribute to the examination and importance of the names of places which is one of the elements of the cultural wealth of our country. When the names of neighborhood in Siverek have been examined, it has been understood that natural, human and economic environments factors have influences on giving names to the places. It has been observed that there are 156 neighborhoods/village in Siverek; the results show that 89 (57.1%) of 156 have been influenced by the human and economical geography features; 56 (35.8%) of 156 have been affected by the physical geographical features and finally, the meanings and sources of 11 (7.1%) of 156 could not been classified.},author={Mehmet AKBIYIK},year={2016},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}