district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
of the
Erzincan Province
Erzincan Province ( tr, ; ku, Parezgêha Erzînganê) is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. In Turkey, its capital is also called Erzincan. The population was 236,034 in 2018.
Geography
Erzincan is traversed by the northeast ...
of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Refahiye.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its area is 1,808 km2, and its population is 11,269 (2022).
Turks
Turk or Turks may refer to:
Communities and ethnic groups
* Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages
* Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
* Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic ...
and
Alevi
Alevism or Anatolian Alevism (; tr, Alevilik, ''Anadolu Aleviliği'' or ''Kızılbaşlık''; ; az, Ələvilik) is a local Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Alevi Islamic ( ''bāṭenī'') teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, ...
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Ir ...
. There are moreover a Georgian presence among the Sunni Turkish-populated villages and few
Alevi
Alevism or Anatolian Alevism (; tr, Alevilik, ''Anadolu Aleviliği'' or ''Kızılbaşlık''; ; az, Ələvilik) is a local Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Alevi Islamic ( ''bāṭenī'') teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, ...
Turkish villages as well.
Some of the settlements were formerly populated by either
Armenians
Armenians ( hy, հայեր, '' hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diaspora ...
or
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Greek Cypriots, Cyprus, Greeks in Albania, Albania, Greeks in Italy, ...
.
Settlements
There is one
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
villages
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
Çatak
Çatak ( ku, Şax, hy, Շատախ ''Šatax'') is a district of Van Province of Turkey, near the border with Iran. As mayor Abdurrahman Şeylan from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected in the local elections in March 2019, Ekrem Ç ...
Diştaş
Diştaş is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Mut, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 532 (2022). It is situated in the valley of Göksu River. The distance to Mut is and to Mersin is .
References
Neighbourho ...
Kadıköy
Kadıköy (), known in classical antiquity and during the Roman and Byzantine eras as Chalcedon ( gr, Χαλκηδών), is a large, populous, and cosmopolitan district in the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey, on the northern shore of the Sea of ...
Salur
Salur or Saluru is a municipal town and Salur mandal, mandal headquarters in Parvathipuram Manyam district, of the Indian States and territories of India, state of Andhra Pradesh.
Geography
Salur is on the banks of River Vegavathi at . It has ...
Yurtbaşı
Yurtbaşı is a belde (town) in the central district (Elazığ District
Elazığ District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of Elazığ Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city Elazığ.Yuvadağı