Solhan District is a district of

Bingöl Province Bingöl Province (; ; ; ) is a province of Turkey. The province was known as Çapakçur Province () before 1945 when it was renamed as Bingöl Province. Its area is 8,003 km2, and its population is 282,556 (2022). The province encompasses 11 ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. The town of

Solhan Solhan (, , ) is a town (belde) and seat of the Solhan District of Bingöl Province in Turkey. The mayor is Abdulhakim Yıldız (Justice and Development Party (Turkey), AK Party). Poklan (Boglan) had 77 Armenians, 8 houses, one church (St. Sargis ...

is the seat and the district had a population of 33,973 in 2021. The district was established in 1932.

Geology and geomorphology

One of the most important mountains in Solhan district is

Şerafettin Mountains Şerafettin Mountains (), is a mountain range in Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the ...

. The high points of the Şerafettin Mountains, which completely cover the north of the district, are Esen Tepe with a height of 2388 meters and Şahin Tepe at an altitude of 2675 meters.

Composition

Beside the town of Solhan, the district encompasses the municipality of Arakonak, twenty-seven villages and eighty

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

Villages

# Arslanbeyli # Asmakaya # Bozkanat # Demirkapı # Dilektepe # Doğuyeli # Düzağaç # Elbaşı # Elmasırtı # Eşmetaş # Gelintepe # Gençtavus #

Göksu The Göksu River (), known in antiquity as the Calycadnus and in the Middle Ages as the Saleph, is a river on the Taşeli Plateau in southern Turkey. Its two sources arise in the Taurus Mountains—the northern in the Geyik Mountains and the s ...

# Hazarşah # İnandık #

Kaleköy Kaleköy (literally "Castle's village" in Turkish) is a village of the Demre district in the Antalya Province of Turkey, located between Kaş and Demre, on the Mediterranean coast. Kaleköy faces the island of Kekova, and can be reached by s ...

# Kırık # Muratköy # Mutluca # Oymapınar # Sükyan # Sülünkaş # Şimşirpınar # Tarhan # Yenibaşak # Yenidal # Yiğitharmanı

References

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