چپاقچور

Borrowed from Armenian Ճապաղջուր (Čapaġǰur), from Old Armenian Ճապաղջուր (Čapałǰur), from ճապաղ (čapał, “spread”) +‎ ջուր (ǰur, “water”). In 1944 the settlement was renamed Bingöl, from bin (“thousand”) + göl (“lake”); however, the province is not rich in lakes, but rather in small tarns scattered around the city.

چپاقچور • (çapakçur)

1. Bingöl (a city, district, and province in Central East Anatolia, Turkey)

• Turkish: Çapakçur (obsolete)

• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1904) Die altarmenischen Ortsnamen (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 447–448
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Bingöl”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çapakçur”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 171