Batıbeyli

Batıbeyli
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Ağrı
District ( ilçe ) :	Diyadin
Coordinates :	39 ° 33 '  N , 43 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 33 '23 "  N , 43 ° 28' 20"  E
Height :	2240  m
Residents :	676 (2009)
Telephone code :	(+90) 472
Postal code :	04900
License plate :	04
Structure and administration (as of 2010)
Muhtar :	Cemalettin Işık

Batıbeyli (Kurd. Zifker ) is a village in the Diyadin district of the Turkish province of Ağrı . Batıbeyli is located in Eastern Anatolia at 2,240 m above sea level, about 25 km west of Diyadin.

Before the name was changed to Batıbeyli, the village was called Zifker. This name comes from "zîvker", the Kurdish word for silversmith. The original name is recorded at the land registry office.

In 1945, 148 people lived in what was then Zifker. In 1985 there were 1,046 people living in Batıbeyli and in 2009 the village still had 676 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.e-tkbm.gov.tr ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanlık İstatistics Genel Müdürlüğü: 21 Ekim 1945 Genel Nüfus Sayımı. Ankara 1948, p. 18
3. ↑ www.yerelnet.org.tr
4. ↑ www.report.tuik.gov.tr ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )