Küçüküngüt
| Küçüküngüt | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Kahramanmaraş | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | Çağlayancerit | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 42 ′ N , 37 ° 22 ′ E | |||
| Height : | 1160 m | |||
| Residents : | 856 (2010) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 344 | |||
| Postal code : | 46 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 46 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2016) | ||||
| Muhtar : | Hüsük Bırbalta | |||
Küçüküngüt ( Kurdish Ungutmilyanli ) is a small village in southeastern Turkey , in the Çağlayancerit district of the Kahramanmaraş province , about 100 km north of the Syrian border.
geography
Küçüküngüt is located about 80 km east of Kahramanmaraş . The climatic conditions here are extreme, with very cold winter and very hot summer months.
The first school was built around the 1960s. Immediately below the village, a cold water spring rises , which carries water all year round and whose water temperature should be below 10 ° C regardless of the season. This spring was probably the reason why the founders of the village settled here on their wanderings between the pleasantly cold high mountains in the north of the village in the hot summer months and the milder flat landscape in the winter months. The water source is called "Küçüküngüt" and leaves a green strip below the village, about 15-20 km long, similar to a stream. To the side of this, a green oasis of crops is created, approximately one kilometer wide. Almost the entire life of the people living there is concentrated on this green and fertile strip. Since Germany first recruited guest workers in the 1960s, there has been an increasing decline in interest in cultivating the partly fertile landscape intensively.
history
It is estimated that the village was founded around 250 years ago, there are no written records, and illiteracy is very high in the area. Since around the 1960s, young people in particular have been emigrating to Europe and America because the living conditions here are very harsh and people have no perspective of building a permanently modern life.
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed February 21, 2011
- ↑ Çağlayancerit Mahalle Muhtarları