Kemaliye
| Kemaliye | ||||
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 Kemaliye on the Euphrates |
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Erzincan | |||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 16 ′ N , 38 ° 30 ′ E | |||
| Height : | 1130 m | |||
| Residents : | 2,256 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 446 | |||
| Postal code : | 2553x | |||
| License plate : | 24 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 11 Mahalle | |||
| Mayor : | Mehmet Karaman ( MHP ) | |||
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| Kemaliye County | ||||
| Residents : | 5,555 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 1,207 km² | |||
| Population density : | 5 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Fatih Kaya | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Kemaliye , formerly Eğin (from Armenian Ակն - Akn ), is a city and at the same time the administrative center of the district of the same name in the Turkish province of Erzincan . The city is located 150 kilometers by road southeast of Erzincan on the Euphrates . It houses around 40 percent of the district's population.
geography
The district Kemaliye is the southernmost district of the province and is bordered to the north by the county Ilic . The remaining borders are provincial borders: Sivas in the west, Malatya and Elazığ in the south and Tunceli in the east. With 4.6 inhabitants per square kilometer, the district has the second lowest population density - like most of the districts in the east and west of the province.
In addition to the district town, the district consists of 61 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 54 residents. That is the lowest number of inhabitants per village, the provincial average of all 522 villages is exactly 100. Topkapı village is the largest with 274 inhabitants. Esertepe (2017: 15 inh .) Has been a district (Mahalle) of the district town since 2018 (2018: 16 inh.).
history
The old city of Akn was founded around the year 1023 by vassals of the Armenian king Seneqerim Johannes , the last ruler of the southern Armenian empire of Vaspurakan . Until 1915, when the Armenian genocide began , the Armenian Apostolic Congregation in the city of Eğin had two churches (Surp Kevork and Surp Asdvadzadzin ) and two monasteries (Surp Krikor Narekazi and Gosmas Tamianos ).
The name Kemaliye was chosen in 1922 and served in honor of the state's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk . The official renaming took place in 1926.
Personalities
- Ebu Sehil Nu'man Efendi (approx. 1700 - after 1750), Ottoman legal scholar and chronicler
- Avedis Bedros XIV. Arpiarian (1856–1937), Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia
- Atom Jertschanian aka Siamanto (1878–1915), writer and victim of the Armenian genocide
- Krikor Torosyan aka Gigo (1884–1915), Armenian satirist, caricaturist, journalist and publisher
- Zakar Tarver (1893-1960), Turkish radiologist of Armenian descent
- Ali Coşkun (* 1939), former Minister of Commerce and Industry
literature
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on June 14, 2019
- ↑ Gérard Dédéyan: Histoire du peuple arménien , éditions Privat, Toulouse 2007, p. 313
- ^ A b Pars Tuğlacı : Tarih boyunca Batı Ermenileri tarihi. Cilt 3. ( 1891-1922 ) , Pars Yayın ve Tic., Istanbul and Ankara 2004 ISBN 9757423068 , page 275
