Malatya (province)

Malatya
Province number:	44
Counties
Basic data
Coordinates:	38 ° 29 ' N , 38 ° 8' E Coordinates: 38 ° 29 ' N , 38 ° 8' E
Provincial capital:	Malatya
Region:	Eastern Anatolia
Surface:	12,313 km²
Population:	781,305 (2016)
Population density:	63.45 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor:	Mustafa Toprak
Seats in Parliament:	6th
Structural
Telephone code:	0422
Features :	44
Website
	www.malatya.gov.tr (Turkish)

Malatya ( Armenian Մալաթիա , zazaisch Meletiye , Kurmanji Meleti , Greek Melitine is) a Turkish province in eastern Anatolia with the same capital Malatya . To the east are Elazig and Diyarbakir , in the south of Adiyaman , in the West Kahramanmaras and north Sivas and Erzincan .

geography

Malatya is dominated by the southeastern Taurus Mountains with the mountains Korudağ (2100 m), Karakaya Tepe (2424 m), Becbel Tepe (2006 m), Beydağı (2544 m), Kelle Tepe (2150 m) and Gayrık Tepedir (2306 m). The Nurhak Mountains are foothills of the Taurus, their most important mountains are the Derbent (2428 m), the Kepez (2140 m), the Kuşkaya Tepesi (1922 m) and the Akçadağ (2013 m).

history

The very early settlement of the region can be seen in the late Neolithic city of Arslantepe in the vicinity of Malatya . She is the Melid of the Hittites. Malatya has been relocated twice throughout its history. The name Malatya itself comes from the Hetithic melid for honey. In 1750 BC King Anitta of Kuschara conquered the area around Malatya and made it part of the Hittite Empire . The Assyrians conquered the area under King Sennacherib (705–681 BC). After them the Medes and Persians ruled here . With the invasion of Alexander the Great , Malatya fell into the Hellenistic sphere of influence. Strabo counted Malatya as one of the ten parts of the kingdom of Cappadocia , which existed from 280 to 212 BC. Existed on. Other rulers of Malatya were the Romans , Byzantines , Arabs , Seljuks and, from 1515, the Ottomans .

From 1915, the genocide of the Armenian minority took place here. The surviving Armenians who fled to Armenia founded the Malatia-Sebastia district in Yerevan . In 1924 the Turkish Malatya was raised to the rank of a province.

On April 18, 2007, the Zirve-Verlag murders took place here .

Counties

Malatya has been a big city (Büyükşehir belediyesi) since 2012. After an administrative reform in 2014, all districts are directly subordinate to the Lord Mayor of Malatya. The former mayors of the municipalities ( Belediye ) were downgraded to the rank of Muhtar . Therefore, the 13 rural districts are also urban districts.


Akçadağ (Kurdish: Arga) Arapgir (Kurdish: Daskuza) Arguvan (Kurdish: Arxewan) Battalgazi Darende Doğanşehir (Kurdish: Wêranşar) Doganyol	Hekimhan (Kurdish: Patrîkxan) Kale (Kurdish: Îzolî) Kuluncak (Kurdish: Tirsekan) Pütürge (Kurdish: Şîro) Yazıhan Yeşilyurt (Kurdish: Çirmik)

economy

The province is the world's largest apricot growing area . Here the sweet apricots are pitted and dried as a whole fruit. Around 95% of the dried apricots traded in Europe now come from Malatya. For several years now, fresh fruits have also been exported to Europe. The Turkey produced in 2010 with 476,132 tonnes of which followed by most of Iran with 400,000 t and Uzbekistan with 325,000 t. Italy was fourth in world production with 252,892 t. The city of Malatya has apricots in its city coat of arms.