Kapanca

	Kapanca
Basic data
Province (il) :	Ağrı
District ( ilçe ) :	Diyadin
Coordinates :	39 ° 30 ' N , 43 ° 33' E Coordinates: 39 ° 29 '59 " N , 43 ° 32' 46" E
Height :	2085 m
Residents :	187 (2009)
Telephone code :	(+90) 472
Postal code :	04900
License plate :	04
Structure and administration (as of 2010)
Muhtar :	M. Sıddık Kaya

Kapanca (Kurd. Setirabat ) is a village in the Diyadin district of the Turkish province of Ağrı . Kapanca is located in Eastern Anatolia at 2,085 m above sea level, approx. 14 km southwest of Diyadin.

Before it was renamed Kapanca, the town was called Setirabat. The name was changed after 1945. The census of 1945 lists the village with its original name. The former name is also registered with the land registry.

In 1945, 52 people lived in what was then Setirabat. In 1985 there were 294 people in Kapanca and in 2009 the village still had 187 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

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

[Türkiye-1] Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanlık İstatistics Genel Müdürlüğü: 21 Ekim 1945 Genel Nüfus Sayımı. Volume 1. Hüsnütabiat Basimevi, Ankara 1948, p. 18

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

[3] www.yerelnet.org.tr

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