Editing Batman, Turkey (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Tigris 2015.jpg|275px|thumb|The [[Tigris]] river in [[Batman Province]].]]
Batman is built on a flat plateau elevated at {{convert|540|m|0|abbr=on}} above the sea level, though there is a declining slope of up to 0.6° in the northeastern and southern areas.<ref>[[#Balaban|Balaban]], 157</ref> There are almost no forests in and around the city. The Iluh River, a tributary of the Batman River, flows through the city. The soil mostly consists of soft and porous clay; it is unstable and is easily eroded with rain and floods of the Batman and Iluh rivers. The floods usually occur between March and May, although they sometimes occur between October and November. Major floods occurred in 1969 (April, 60 buildings damaged), 1972 (April and May, 210 buildings damaged), 1991 (November, 500 buildings flooded), 1995 (March, nearly 1000 buildings submerged and 450 damaged) and 2006 (October, 11 people died and 20 injured).<ref name="b147">[[#Balaban|Balaban]], 147–149</ref><ref>[[#Balaban|Balaban]], 157: there is a likely misprint on p. 149 and the number of killed was 11 rather than 100</ref>