Maggots (Elazığ)
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 Maggots over the Maggot Çayı, a source river of the Tigris |
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Elazığ | |||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 23 ' N , 39 ° 40' E | |||
| Height : | 1054 m | |||
| Surface: | 344 km² | |||
| Residents : | 5,373 (2018) | |||
| Population density : | 16 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 424 | |||
| Postal code : | 23400 | |||
| License plate : | 23 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 2 malls | |||
| Mayor : | Orhan Yavuz ( MHP ) | |||
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| Maden district | ||||
| Residents : | 16,608 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 819 km² | |||
| Population density : | 20 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Refik Özsoy | |||
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Maden ( Ottoman Erganimadeni ) is a city and capital of the district of the same name in the Turkish province of Elazığ . The city is 77 kilometers south-east of Elazığ by road and is home to around a third of the district's population (2018: 32.35%). The city got its name from the rich metal deposits in the area (maggots = metal, mineral deposits). The Maden copper mine and the associated administrative center Ergani were mentioned as early as the 18th century, the latter as a sandschak center as early as 1518.
The district of Maden is located in the south of the province and borders in the north with the central district ( Merkez ), in the west with the district Sivrice , in the east with the district Alacakaya and in the south with the province Diyarbakır . In addition to the district town there are 38 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 296 inhabitants. Gezin is the largest village with 1,373 inhabitants.
Personalities
- Fethiye Çetin (* 1950), lawyer, writer and human rights activist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on June 12, 2019
- ^ Carsten Niebuhr: Travel description to Arabia and the surrounding countries (1766) . tape 2 . Graz 1968, p. 405 .
- ↑ Necat Göyünç: XVI. Yüzyılda Mardin Sançağı . Istanbul 1969, p. 35 .
