Pertek District is a district of
Tunceli Province
Tunceli Province (), formerly Dersim Province (; ; ), is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Its central city is Tunceli. The province has a Kurdish majority. Moreover, it is the only province in Turkey with an Alevi majority. ...
in
Turkey
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. The town of
Pertek is its seat and the district had a population of 11,011 in 2021.
Its area is 858 km
2.
Kaymakam
Kaymakam, also known by #Names, many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrators of district kazas. The title has been reta ...
is Arif Gül.
Composition
Beside the town of Pertek, the district encompasses forty-five villages and seventy-five
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
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Akdemir
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Ardıç
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