Adıyaman (Province)

Adıyaman
Province number:	02
Counties
Basic data
Coordinates:	37 ° 48 '  N , 38 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 48 '  N , 38 ° 18'  E
Provincial capital:	Adıyaman
Region:	Southeast Anatolia
Surface:	7337 km²
Population:	624,513 (2018)
Population density:	85 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor:	Aykut Pekmez
Seats in Parliament:	5
Structural
Telephone code:	0416
Features :	02
Website
www.adiyaman.gov.tr (Turkish)

Adıyaman ( Kurdish Semsûr ) is a province in southeastern Turkey . It is surrounded by the provinces of Malatya , Kahramanmaraş , Gaziantep , Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır . The province of Adıyaman is 7337 km².

location

Adıyaman is located in southeastern Anatolia . The area is very mountainous, one of the elevations is Mount Nemrut . The border to the province of Şanlıurfa is formed by the Euphrates , which is dammed here to form the Ataturk reservoir , the reservoir with the largest amount of water in Turkey.

Origin of the name "Adıyaman"

There are at least two accounts of the origin of the Turkish name of the city of Adıyaman, which gives the province its name, and one about the Kurdish name.

• Adıyaman is said to have had fertile valleys around it. Hence the name Vadi i Leman , which means "beautiful valley". The current name arose from this name.

• In a town called Farrin or Perrhe there is said to have been a man who worshiped idols. This man had seven sons who one day when the father was absent they destroyed idols in the name of the only God. When the father found out about this, he killed all of his sons. Thereupon a monastery was built in Farrin in honor of the sons. Since then, the city has been called Yedi Yaman , which means the “Brave Seven”. This then became Adıyaman.

• In the middle of the city is a castle , the name of which Hısn-ı Mansur means "Mansur's castle" in German. Mansur could be the Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur , or a commander of the Arab Umayyads who invaded here in the 7th century. The name Hısn-ı Mansur was pronounced by the people of Hüsnü Mansur and is still popularly the name of this province. The Kurdish semsur is derived from it.

In 1926 the province name was changed from Hısn-ı Mansur or Hüsnü Mansur to Adıyaman.

Administrative division

The province of Adıyaman consists of the counties ( İlçe ):

• Adıyaman
• Besni
• Çelikhan (Kurdish Çêlikan)
• Gerger (Aramaic: Gargar: ܓܪܓܪ) (Kurdish Aldûş)
• Gölbaşı (Kurdish Serê Golan)
• Kâhta (Aramaic: Kahta: ܟܚܬܐ) (Kurdish colic)
• Samsat (Aramaic: Şmişat: ܫܡܝܫܛ) (Kurdish Semsat)
• Sincik (Kurdish Sinciq)
• Tut (Aramaic: Tutho: ܬܘܬܐ) (Kurdish Tût)

district	Area (km²) 1	Population (2018) 2		Number of Units			Density (Ew / km²)	urban share (in%)	Gender ratio 3	Founding date 4, 5
		district	Administrative headquarters (Merkez)	Municipalities (Belediye)	District (Mahalle)	Villages (Köy)
Adiyaman Merkez	1,814	304.615	254,695	3	49	134	167.92	85.40	990	06/14/1954
Besni	1,235	77,301	33.284	6th	37	67	62.59	58.97	980
Çelikhan	444	16,065	8,682	2	17th	20th	36.18	74.89	937	06/01/1954
Gerger	668	19,035	3,605	1	5	45	28.50	18.94	998	06/01/1954
Gölbaşı	800	49,255	31,628	4th	17th	30th	61.57	76.41	987	04/01/1958
Kâhta	1,274	122,774	78,431	3	25th	102	96.37	67.15	969
Samsat	319	7,893	3,757	1	4th	16	24.74	47.60	952	04/01/1960
Sincik	495	17,414	4,301	2	14th	24	35.18	38.32	1012	May 20, 1990
Does	290	10.161	3,506	1	7th	14th	35.04	34.50	934	May 20, 1990
PROVINCE of Adıyaman	7,337	624,513		23	175	452	85.12	72.92	983

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¹ area in 2014
^two population projection on December 31, 2018
³ sex ratio (Sex Ratio): Number of women per 1000 men (calculated)
⁴ PDF file of the Interior Ministry ^five counties, the first to have been formed Foundation of Turkey (1923).

population

The population is made up of Turks and Kurds .

At the 2011 census , the average age in the province was 24.1 years (national average: 29.6), with the female population being on average 0.8 years older than the male population (24.5-23.7).
The following table shows the annual population development at the end of the year after updating by the addressable population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007. In addition, the population growth rate and are gender relations ( sex ratio h. Number of women per 1,000 men d.) Listed.
The 2011 census determined 594,163 inhabitants, which is almost 30,000 fewer than in the 2000 census.

year	Population at the end of the year			Population growth rate (in%)	Gender ratio (women per 1000 men)	Rank (among 81 provinces)
	total	male	Female
2018	624,513	314.998	309,515	1.53	983	33
2017	615.076	309,551	305,525	0.75	987	33
2016	610.484	307,662	302.822	1.28	984	33
2015	602.774	303.163	299,611	0.83	988	33
2014	597.835	299,846	297,989	0.11	994	33
2013	597.184	299,963	297.221	0.32	991	35
2012	595.261	298,737	296,524	0.22	993	35
2011	593.931	298.204	295,727	0.51	992	35
2010	590.935	294.920	296.015	0.42	1004	35
2009	588,475	294.213	294,262	0.58	1000	35
2008	585.067	291,660	293,407	0.40	1006	35
2007	582,762	288,615	294.147	-	1019	36
2000 1	623.811	313,362	310,449		991	35

¹ 2000 census

history

• 3000-1200 BC Chr .: Hurriter and Hittiter
• 1200-750 BC Chr .: Assyrians
• 750-600 BC Chr .: Phrygians
• 600–334 BC Chr .: Medes and Persians
• 334- v. Chr .: Macedonians
• 163 BC BC – 72 AD: Empire of Commagene
• 72-395: Romans
• 395-670: Byzantines
• 670-758: Umayyads
• 758-926: Abbasids
• 926-958: Hamdanids
• 958-1114: Byzantines
• 1114-1204: Ayyubids
• 1204–1298: Rum Seljuks
• 1298-1516: Mameluks
• 1516-1923: Ottomans
• 1923 – today: Turkish Republic

economy

Agriculture is very common in the region. The other sources of income are oil production and tourism.

Attractions

Archaeological sites:

• The ruins of Mount Nemrut - Kâhta / Karadut
• The ruins of Arsameia on Nymphaios and the Karakuş - Kahta / Kocahisar burial mound
• The remains of Eski Besni (Old Besni )
• The ruins of Perrhe - in the Örenli district in the north of Adıyaman
• The Roman Chabinas Bridge over the Cendere Çayı near Kahta
• The two tumuli of Sofraz near Üçgöz
• The burial mound Sesönk south of Besni
• The Archaeological Museum in the center of Adıyaman

Festival:

• Melon Festival in Besni 01.06. – 15.06.
• International Kahta Kommagene Festival in Kâhta 25.07. – 27.07.
• Grape Festival in Gölbaşı 29.09. – 01.10.
• Education and culture festival in Besni 22.09. – 24.09.
• Honey Culture and Tourism Festival in Çelikhan 25.08. – 26.08.
• Art and culture festival in Tut 19.07. − 23.07.

Personalities

• Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat , politician
• Sırrı Ayhan , Kurdish author

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl ve İlçelere Göre Nüfus Bilgileri , accessed on May 5, 2019
2. ↑ Adıyaman Province Website (Governor Portrait)
3. ↑ Directorate General of Mapping PDF file 0.25 MB
4. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl İlçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusu , accessed on May 5, 2019
5. ↑ [1] TARİH (1) .pdf 1.4 MB