Kangal (Sivas)

	Kangal
Basic data
Province (il) :	Sivas
Coordinates :	39 ° 14 ' N , 37 ° 23' E Coordinates: 39 ° 14 '12 " N , 37 ° 23' 19" E
Height :	1540 m
Residents :	9,410 (2018)
Telephone code :	(+90) 346
Postal code :	58 900
License plate :	58
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure :	8 mahalles
Mayor :	Ahmet Kürşad Apaydın (BPP)
Postal address :	Gürsel Mahallesi, ; Çarşı İçi No: 1 ; 58900 Kangal
Website:	www.kangal.bel.tr
Kangal County
Residents :	21,669 (2018)
Surface:	3,342 km²
Population density :	6 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Cuma Emeç
Website (Kaymakam):	www.kangal.gov.tr

Kangal is a small town and capital of the district of the same name ( İlçe ) in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas . The city is about 90 kilometers by road (air line: 65 km) south-southeast of the provincial capital Sivas . The original name was Kangara, according to the city seal, the place was raised to the rank of a municipality ( Belediye ) in 1923 .

The district Kangal is located in the south of the province and is the second largest here. It borders on Altınyayla County in the west , Ulaş County in the northeast, Zara County in the northeast , Divriği County in the east and Gürün County in the south . The external borders are the provinces of Kayseri in the west and Malatya in the southeast.

Center with the main mosque
Ulu Karsi Cami from 1968

Kangal is about 70 kilometers southeast of Sivas on the expressway to Malatya (D850). A smaller road leads east over a 1950 meter high pass in the Yama mountain range to Divriği, 68 kilometers away . Kangal has a railway connection. The city is an agricultural supply center for the surrounding villages.

In 1859, Carl Ritter reproduced the travelogue of the Armenian Patriarch Macarius, according to which Kangal was a caravan station on the way between Constantinople and Persia in 1695 . According to archaeological finds, a trade route between Sivas and the plain of Malatya via Ulaş, Kangal and Alacahan has existed with almost no interruption since the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. Chr.

Others

The city is also known for the Kangal dog breed bred in the area . After their occurrence in the region, the reddish sucking barbel are also called "kangal fish". The place name Kangal is derived from the ethnonym Kaŋlı, Kangly, Kangar , which is still a tribal name among the Turkic peoples of Central Asia.

sons and daughters of the town

Muhlis Akarsu (1948–1993), baglama player and singer
Sabahat Akkiraz (* 1955), singer
Asadur Asadian (* 1951), German artist
Efgani Dönmez (* 1976), Austrian politician

Web links

Commons : Kangal - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 21, 2019
↑ Carl Ritter : The geography of Asia . Volume IX: Asia Minor. Part 2. G. Reimer, Berlin 1859, p. 23
↑ A. Tuba ökse: Ancient Mountain Routes Connecting Central Anatolia to the Upper Euphrates region. In: Anatolian Studies , Vol. 57: Transanatolia: Bridging the Gap between East and West in the Archeology of Ancient Anatolia. British Institute at Ankara, 2007, pp. 35–45, here p. 38
↑ Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA, Volume 37, Issue 4. Sociological Abstracts, Incorporated, 2003, p. 1669.

[Infobox_Ort_in_der_Türkei.EinwohnerOrt-1] Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 21, 2019

[2] Carl Ritter : The geography of Asia . Volume IX: Asia Minor. Part 2. G. Reimer, Berlin 1859, p. 23

[3] A. Tuba ökse: Ancient Mountain Routes Connecting Central Anatolia to the Upper Euphrates region. In: Anatolian Studies , Vol. 57: Transanatolia: Bridging the Gap between East and West in the Archeology of Ancient Anatolia. British Institute at Ankara, 2007, pp. 35–45, here p. 38

[4] Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA, Volume 37, Issue 4. Sociological Abstracts, Incorporated, 2003, p. 1669.