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İğde
İğde is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Elbistan, KahramanmaraÅŸ Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,697 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''belde''). It is located between Elbistan (16 km from it) and Ekinözü. The dominant climate is the continental one. The climate is very dry, but irrigation is provided by the Ceyhan River The Ceyhan River (historically Pyramos or Pyramus (), Leucosyrus () or Jihun) is a river in Anatolia in the south of Turkey. Course of the river The Ceyhan River (Pyramus) has its source (known as ''Söğütlü Dere'') at a location called '' ... (that takes birth in Elbistan), one of the biggest rivers in Turkey. There are one elementary and one high school. References Neighbourhoods in Elbistan District {{KahramanmaraÅŸ-geo-stub ...
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Elbistan
Elbistan (;Aksüt, Ali"''On the Alevism of Elbistan, Nurhak, Ekinozu and Afsin - Elbistan Nurhak Ekinözü AfÅŸin AleviliÄŸi Üzerine - Zum Alevitentum in Elbistan, Nurhak, Ekinözü und AfÅŸin''"- Alevilik-BektaÅŸilik AraÅŸtırmaları Dergisi 2017 (No.15), pp.264-265, 27doi:10.24082/abked.2017.15.011/ref> ; (Al-Bustan) ) is a municipality and district of KahramanmaraÅŸ Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,201 km2, and its population is 141,307 (2022). Etymology The name "Elbistan" was pronounced similarly in Byzantine and Islamic sources. Elbistan was known as Plasta and Plastentia () in antiquity. Elbistan was known as ''Ablasta'' () according to Armenian historians in the early 11th century. According to Baldric of Dol the city was known as ''"Ablistan"'' till 15th century. Egyptian-Mamluk historian Muhammad ibn Iyas wrote the city's name as ''"Albistan"''. Alaüddevle Bozkurt Bey from Dulkadirids used the name ''"Elbistan"'' in the official documents. After Dulkadirids were ...
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KahramanmaraÅŸ Province
KahramanmaraÅŸ Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is 14,520 km2, and its population is 1,177,436 (2022). Its provincial capital is the city of KahramanmaraÅŸ, and the Turkish car number plates#Location codes, traffic code is 46. In 2023, Its Pazarcık and Elbistan districts were home to the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes causing major damage to the city with 50K+ deaths. Geography Making up 1.83 % of Turkey's land area, KahramanmaraÅŸ is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude. The majority of the province with around 60% of the total area is covered with mountains, being followed by plateaus and plains. Most of the mountains in the province is part of the Southeastern Taurus Mountains, Taurus Mountain range. Due to the low tree line most of the highest areas are bare, but lower regions have forests. Southern parts of the province has a hot-summer ...
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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, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turkish people, Turks, while ethnic Kurds in Turkey, Kurds are the Minorities in Turkey, largest ethnic minority. Officially Secularism in Turkey, a secular state, Turkey has Islam in Turkey, a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya. First inhabited by modern humans during the Late Paleolithic, present-day Turkey was home to List of ancient peoples of Anatolia, various ancient peoples. The Hattians ...
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TÜİK
Turkish Statistical Institute (commonly known as TurkStat; or TÜİK) is the Turkish government agency commissioned with producing official statistics on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It was founded in 1926 and headquartered in Ankara. Formerly named as the State Institute of Statistics (Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü (DİE)), the institute was renamed as the Turkish Statistical Institute on November 18, 2005. See also * List of Turkish provinces by life expectancy References External linksOfficial website of the institute National statistical services Statistical Organizations established in 1926 Organizations based in Ankara {{Sci-org-stub ...
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2013 Turkish Local Government Reorganisation
Municipalities () are the basic units of local government in Turkey. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute the population of 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 ... was 76,667,864 as of 31 December 2013. The majority of the population live in settlements with municipalities. The number of municipalities in Turkey was 2,947 in 2009. But in 2013, most of the small town () municipalities were merged to district () municipalities by the Act 6360Law No. 6360
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Belde
Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too small to have municipalities. The population in some villages may exceed 2000 and in such villages a small municipality may be established depending on residents' choice. Such villages are called ''belde''. Up to 2014 the number of ''belde'' municipalities was about 1400. On 30 March 2014 by the act no. 6360 all villages (those with and without municipality) were included in the urban fabric of the district municipalities in 30 provinces. Thus ''belde'' municipalities in 30 provinces were abolished. The number of abolished ''belde'' municipalities is 1040. Presently, in 51 provinces, which are not in the scope of the act no 6360, there are still 394 ''belde'' municipalities. See also *2013 Turkish local government reorganisation *Metropo ...
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Official Gazette Of The Republic Of Turkey
''Official Gazette of the Republic of Türkiye'' () is the national and only official journal of Turkey that publishes the new legislation and other official announcements. It is referred to as ''Resmî Gazete'' in short. It has been published since 7 February 1921, approximately two years before the proclamation of the republic. The first fifteen issues of the newspaper were published once a week, the next three issues once every two weeks, the next three issues once a week. From 18 July 1921 to 10 September 1923, the newspaper was not published due to the Turkish War of Independence. Since Issue No. 763, which was released on 17 December 1927, it has been officially published under the name ''Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Resmî Gazete''. As of 1 December 1928, it started to be printed with the new Turkish alphabet The Turkish alphabet () is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which ( Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü) h ...
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Ekinözü
Ekinözü is a municipality and district of KahramanmaraÅŸ Province, Turkey. Its area is 656 km2, and its population is 10,290 (2022). The town was north of the epicenter of a 7.5 earthquake on 6 February 2023—the latter of two large earthquakes the same day. At least 11 people died, 107 houses were destroyed and 70 percent of the town's building stock were damaged by the earthquakes. Composition There are 21 neighbourhoods A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ... in Ekinözü District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. * Akpınar * Alişar * Altınyaprak * Anbar * ...
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Ceyhan River
The Ceyhan River (historically Pyramos or Pyramus (), Leucosyrus () or Jihun) is a river in Anatolia in the south of Turkey. Course of the river The Ceyhan River (Pyramus) has its source (known as ''Söğütlü Dere'') at a location called ''Pınarbaşı'' on the Nurhak Mountains of the Eastern Taurus Mountains range, southeast of the town of Elbistan in the Kahramanmaraş province of Turkey. According to classical references its source is at Cataonia near the town of Arabissus. Its main tributaries are called Harman, Göksun, Mağara Gözü, Fırnız, Tekir, Körsulu, Aksu (which joins Ceyhan at the outskirts of Kahramanmaraş), Çakur, Susas, and Çeperce. Its total length is . In classical times for a time it passed under ground, but then came forward again as a navigable river, and forced its way through a glen of Mount Taurus, which in some parts was so narrow that Strabo claims a dog or hare could leap across it. Its course, which to this point had been south, the ...
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