Elazığ (Province)

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Elâzığ
Province number: 23
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Basic data
Coordinates: 38 ° 40 ′  N , 39 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 38 ° 40 ′  N , 39 ° 22 ′  E
Provincial capital: Elazığ
Region: Eastern Anatolia
Surface: 9,383 km²
Population: 595,638 (2018)
Population density: 63.5 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor: Çetin Oktay Kaldırım
Seats in Parliament: 4th
Structural
Telephone code: 0424
Features : 23
Website
www.elazig.gov.tr (Turkish)

Elâzığ ( kurd. Elazîz ) is a province ( İl ) in eastern Turkey . To the east lies Bingöl , in the north Tunceli (Kurdish Dersim ), in the west Malatya and in the south Diyarbakır . The province was named after the capital Elazığ .

geography

Elâzığ is located at an altitude of 1060 meters. 826 km² of the province are water bodies, as there are many reservoirs in Elâzığ . The largest reservoirs are the Keban and Karakaya reservoirs on the course of the Euphrates , the Kralkızı reservoir on the Tigris and the Özlüce reservoir on the Peri . There are also natural lakes such as Hazar Lake, which is 86 km².

Administrative division

Some places / districts in the province have Kurdish names:

The province of Elazığ is divided into eleven districts:

district Area 1
(km²) 		Population (2018) 2 Number of Units Density
(Ew / km²) 		urban
share (in%) 		Sex
ratio 3 		Founding
date 4.5
District ( İlçe ) Administrative headquarters
(Merkez) 		Municipalities
(Belediye) 		City
quarter
(Mahalle) 		Villages
(Köy)
Ağın 242 2,776 1,690 1 4th 16 11.47 60.88 1035 06/01/1954
Alacakaya 318 6,566 2,812 1 6th 10 20.65 42.83 910 May 20, 1990
Aricak 354 17,028 4,312 4th 23 10 48.10 75.69 929 07/04/1987
Baskil 1,318 20,505 4,716 1 6th 60 15.56 23.00 981 06/26/1926
Karakoçan 1,049 28,702 14,397 2 9 88 27.36 57.76 989 04/01/1936
Keban 641 8,409 4,059 1 4th 30th 13.12 48.27 1029
Kovancılar 960 38,774 23,798 1 12 76 40.39 61.38 1006 07/04/1987
Maggots 819 16.608 5,373 1 2 38 20.28 32.35 993
Merkez Elazığ 2,243 421.726 353,629 5 64 135 188.02 90.46 1019
Palu 730 23,834 9,504 2 14th 37 32.65 58.37 955
Sivrice 710 10,710 4,377 1 7th 50 15.08 40.87 1017 04/01/1936
Elazığ PROVINCE 9,383 595,638 20th 151 550 63.48 79.19 1008

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1 Area 2014
2 Population update on December 31, 2018
3 Gender ratio : number of women per 1000 men (calculated)
4 PDF file of the Ministry of the Interior
5 districts that were only formed after Turkey was founded (1923).

population

The population consists mainly of Turks and Kurds . The Alevis are a religious minority. In the 1970s, there were violent clashes between Sunnis and Alevis during the fasting month of Ramadan . More than 1,000 people were killed in these clashes. Many of the Alevis living in Elâzığ come from the neighboring province of Tunceli.

Up until the First World War there were numerous Armenian villages and communities in the province, which is why it was counted among the Six Armenian Vilâyets ( Vilâyat-ı custom ).

Results of the population extrapolation

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 the sex ratio (ie number of women per 1000 men) are listed. The 2011 census determined 559,063 inhabitants, which is more than 10,000 inhabitants less than 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 595,638 296,641 298.997 2.05 1008 37
2017 583,671 290,692 292,979 0.84 1008 37
2016 578,789 287.991 290,798 0.78 1010 36
2015 574,304 285,511 288,793 0.98 1011 36
2014 568,753 281,583 287.170 0.09 1020 37
2013 568.239 282.049 286.190 0.98 1015 37
2012 562.703 279,599 283.104 0.74 1013 37
2011 558,556 277.151 281,405 1.07 1015 37
2010 552,646 272,500 280.146 0.36 1028 37
2009 550,667 273.212 277,455 0.57 1016 37
2008 547,562 271,330 276.232 1.16 1018 37
2007 541.258 266.284 274.974 - 1033 38
2000 569,616 364.274 205,342 564 39

Census results

The following tables show the population of Elazığ province documented in the 14 censuses .
The values ​​in the table on the left are taken from e-books (from the original documents), the values ​​in the table on the right come from the data query of the Turkish statistical institute TÜIK - available on this website:

year population rank
province Turkey
1927 213,777 13,648,270 25th
1935 256.189 16.158.018 30th
1940 190.366 17,820,950 45
1945 198.081 18,790,174 44
1950 213,330 20,947,188 45
1955 242.914 24,064,763 44
1960 278,332 27,754,820 42
year population rank
province Turkey
1965 322,727 31,391,421 42
1970 376.915 35.605.176 40
1975 417.924 40,347,719 40
1980 440,808 44,736,957 42
1985 483.715 50,664,458 42
1990 498.225 56.473.035 41
2000 569,616 67,803,927 39

Number of provinces in relation to the census years:

  • 1927, 1940 to 1950: 63 provinces
  • 1935: 57 provinces
  • 1955: 67 provinces
  • 1960 to 1985: 73 provinces
  • 1990: 73 provinces
  • 2000: 81 provinces

history

The city of Elazığ is relatively young and thus contrasts with the long history of the region. Traces of settlement are around 5000 years old.

The Hittites called this region Išuwa . Between the 12th and 7th centuries BC BC Elâzığ belonged to Urartu . Some settlements and mountain fortresses, such as the fortresses of Palu and Harput, date from this period. After that Elâzığ fell to the Medes , Persians , Romans , Byzantines and Arabs .

After the invasion of Turkish peoples, the region came under the Turkish Çubukoğulları dynasty in 1085. In 1234 Elâzığ fell to the Seljuks . In 1243 the Mongolian Ilkhan dynasty conquered Elâzığ from Iran . In 1363 the Dulkadir ruled , in 1465 the Turkmen Akkoyunlular and from 1516 the Ottomans . In 1834 the center of the province was relocated from Harput city to Elâzığ city. From 1864 it became the center of the new Mamuretül-Aziz Vilâyet . In the genocide of the Armenians in 1915, almost all of the Armenian population in the province was deported, and the Mamuretül-Aziz massacre near Harput took place . Elâzığ has been an independent province since 1921. Until 1937, the city and province were called Mamuret el- Aziz (city built by Aziz), as the new city was built under the Ottoman Sultan Abdul-Aziz .

education

The Fırat University was founded in the 1975th

Personalities

Others

Harput is the oldest city in the region. Established as a fortress, the city's importance has declined in recent decades. The origin of the name is not entirely clear. Strabo called the area Karkathiokerta . The Persians knew this area as Ziata Castellum . In Arabic it was called Hısnıziyad as Hisn means fortress. In Assyrian sources, Harput was called Karpata . The Byzantines called it Kharpote and the Franks Quartapiert . The scholar and traveler Evliya Çelebi called it Hasan Ziyad ülkesi ("The Land of Hasan Ziyad"). In the Ottoman documents there were the names Hartabird , Harpurt or Harpurd .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl ve İlçelere Göre Nüfus Bilgileri , accessed on June 12, 2019
  2. ↑ Governor's portrait on the Elazığ Province website
  3. ↑ Directorate General of Mapping (PDF; 0.25 MB).
  4. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl İlçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusu , accessed on June 12, 2019
  5. ↑ illeridaresi.gov.tr (PDF; 1.4 MB).
  6. ↑ Genel Nüfus Sayımları (census results 1965 to 2000)