Boyalan

	Boyalan
Basic data
Province (il) :	Ağrı
District ( ilçe ) :	Diyadin
Coordinates :	39 ° 30 ' N , 43 ° 42' E Coordinates: 39 ° 29 '34 " N , 43 ° 42' 5" E
Height :	1990 m
Residents :	331 (2009)
Telephone code :	(+90) 472
Postal code :	04900
License plate :	04
Structure and administration (as of 2010)
Muhtar :	Yavuz Zorbay

Boyalan (Kurd. Kürdikan ) is a village in the Diyadin district of the Turkish province of Ağrı . Boyalan is located in Eastern Anatolia at 1,990 m above sea level, about 6 km south of Diyadin.

Before it was renamed Boyalan, the village was called Kürdikan. This is the name of a tribe . This original name is recorded in the land registry and was used as an alternative name in the 1965 census.

Between 1985 and 2000 the population decreased from 436 to 310 inhabitants and in 2009 the village had 331 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

↑ www.e-tkbm.gov.tr ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
↑ TC Başbakanlık Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü: Genel Nüfus Sayımı: İdari Bölünüş: İl, İlçe, Bucak ve Köy (Muhtarlık) Nüfusları, October 24, 1965. Ankara 1968, page 37
↑ www.yerelnet.org.tr
↑ www.report.tuik.gov.tr ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

[1] www.e-tkbm.gov.tr ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[2] TC Başbakanlık Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü: Genel Nüfus Sayımı: İdari Bölünüş: İl, İlçe, Bucak ve Köy (Muhtarlık) Nüfusları, October 24, 1965. Ankara 1968, page 37

[3] www.yerelnet.org.tr

[4] www.report.tuik.gov.tr ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )