Keban
| Keban | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Elazığ | |||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 48 ' N , 38 ° 45' E | |||
| Height : | 780 m | |||
| Residents : | 4,059 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 424 | |||
| Postal code : | 23 700 | |||
| License plate : | 23 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Mayor : | Fethiye Atlı (Bagimsiz) | |||
| Postal address : | Kallar Mah. Cumhuriyet Cad. No: 8 23700 Keban |
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| Keban County | ||||
| Residents : | 8,409 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 641 km² | |||
| Population density : | 13 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Ersin Tepelİ | |||
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Keban ( Armenian Gaban - "passage") is a city and capital of the district of the same name in the Turkish province of Elazığ . The place is about 47 kilometers by road west of the provincial capital and is home to about half of the district's population (2018: 48.3%). Keban is located on the Euphrates River , which is dammed north of Keban to form the Keban Reservoir ( Keban Baraj Gölü ).
geography
Keban County is in the west of the province. It borders in the south on Baskil County , in the east on the central county ( Merkez ) and in the west on the Arapkir County of Malatya Province . In the north, the Keban Reservoir forms a natural border with Ağın County and Tunceli Province .
After the district of Ağın, the district has the lowest population density of only 13 inhabitants per km², which is about a fifth of the provincial average. In addition to the district town, the district consists of 30 villages ( Köy ) with an average population of 145 inhabitants. Altınkürek is the largest village with 749 inhabitants.
history
The history of keban goes back a long way. Traces of settlement from the Copper Age were found during the construction of the Keban Dam . At the time of the Hittites in the 2nd millennium BC Keban was part of the land of Išuwa . The settlement mounds of Korucutepe and Norşuntepe with inscriptions and names of the kings of Išuwa bear witness to this period . At Tepecik there are remains of Assyrian trading posts . After the fall of the Hittites ruled in the 9th century BC. The Urartians .
Later the Byzantines and after them the Seljuks ruled over Keban. In 1017 the Seljuk ruler Tschaghri Beg led a campaign to Elazığ. After the Turkish conquest of Anatolia, various Turkish principalities such as the Ortoqids , Çubukoğulları, Dulkadir and Aq Qoyunlu ruled . In 1515 the defeated Ottomans the Safavids and was master of all Anatolia . Keban remained Ottoman until the First World War . Keban has been part of the newly founded Turkey since 1923.
At the beginning of the 20th century, 250 households were Muslim and another 50 were Armenian .
In 1954, the district gave the northern part of its territory to the newly founded Ağın District.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on June 12, 2019
