Çetinkaya is a village in the

Kangal District Kangal District is a Districts of Turkey, district of the Sivas Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Kangal.

Sivas Province Sivas Province () is a province of Turkey. It is located in the eastern part of the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Its area is 28,164 km2 (the second largest province after Konya), and its population is 634,924 (2022). Its adjacent prov ...

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. It is populated by

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and had a population of 882 in 2023. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''

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 ...

'').Law No. 6360
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'', 6 December 2012 .

Highway

The village is located just north of the D.260 state highway and Çetinkaya station is serviced by intercity trains from

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

(temporarily Irmak) to

Kars Kars ( or ; ; ) is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District.� ...

, Kurtalan, and Tatvan, as well as regional trains from

Sivas Sivas is a city in central Turkey. It is the seat of Sivas Province and Sivas District.İl Beledi ...

to Divriği.

References

{{Kangal District Villages in Kangal District Kurdish settlements in Sivas Province