Yozgat (Province)

Yozgat
Province number:	66
Counties
Basic data
Coordinates:	39 ° 40 ′ N , 35 ° 16 ′ E Coordinates: 39 ° 40 ′ N , 35 ° 16 ′ E
Provincial capital:	Yozgat
Region:	Central Anatolia
Surface:	13690
Population:	424,981 (2018)
Population density:	31.0 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor:	Kadir Çakır
Seats in Parliament:	4th
Structural
Telephone code:	0354
Features :	66
Website
	www.yozgat.gov.tr (Turkish)

Yozgat is a Turkish province in central Anatolia . It is located between the capital Ankara and Sivas . The administrative seat of the province is the city of the same name, Yozgat . Yozgat is at an altitude of 1,300 meters, the climate is dry, winters severe and summers mild. To the north, Yozgat is bordered by the provinces of Çorum , Amasya and Tokat , to the east by Sivas , to the south by Kayseri and Nevşehir and to the west by Kırşehir and Kırıkkale .

Infrastructure and economy

The region is characterized by the cultivation of wheat, although there are also industrial structures here and there. In Yozgat there is the Tuborg brewery, the Yibitaş - Lafarge cement plant and Yimpaş , one of the leading department stores in Turkey until the late 1990s, which also opened branches in Germany. The trunk road from Ankara to Kayseri runs through Yozgat and on to Iran and the Middle East . The railway runs through Yerköy, Şefaatli and Sarıkent. Şefaatli was founded in the 1940s because of the railway and now has over 30,000 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Counties

The province is divided into 14 districts:

district	Area ¹ (km²)	Population (2018) ²		Number of Units			Density (Ew / km²)	urban share (in%)	Sex ratio ³	Founding date ^4.5
district	Area ¹ (km²)	District ( İlçe )	Administrative headquarters (Merkez)	Municipalities (Belediye)	City quarter (Mahalle)	Villages (Köy)	Density (Ew / km²)	urban share (in%)	Sex ratio ³	Founding date ^4.5
Akdağmadeni	1,810	42,919	21,273	4th	19th	78	23.7	61.70	1006
Aydıncık	338	10,407	3,001	2	5	22nd	30.8	61.09	1001	1990
Boğazlıyan	1,515	34,121	17,277	6th	31	22nd	22.5	80.39	961
Çandır	205	4,597	3,612	1	10	4th	22.4	78.57	1056	1990
Çayıralan	995	13,512	5,547	2	10	23	13.6	53.74	1012	1948
Çekerek	790	19,786	9,356	2	8th	41	25.0	54.03	1024	1944
Kadışehri	472	11,716	4,810	2	14th	20th	24.8	56.67	1010	1990
Merkez Yozgat	2,024	105.167	90.163	1	27	96	52.0	85.73	1007
Saraykent	319	14,198	6,056	3	12	14th	44.5	67.02	989	1990
Sarıkaya	1,018	33,010	18,041	2	19th	56	32.4	59.93	995	1957
Sorgun	1,768	79,314	52.179	8th	49	74	44.9	83.89	996	1926
Şefaatli	882	15,135	9,013	1	11	41	17.2	59.55	1010	1954
Yenifakılı	390	5,538	2,765	1	5	7th	14.2	49.93	1053	1990
Yerkoy	1,164	35,561	27,565	1	14th	60	30.6	77.51	1050	1945
PROVINCE of Yozgat	13,690	424.981		36	234	558	31.0	73.84	1005

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¹ Area 2014
² Population update on December 31, 2018
³ Gender ratio : number of women per 1000 men (calculated)
⁴ PDF file of the Ministry of the Interior
⁵ districts that were only formed after Turkey was founded (1923).

population

Results of the population extrapolation

The following table shows the annual population development after updating by the addressable population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007. In addition, the population growth rate and sex ratio are ( Sex Ratio listed ie number of women per 1,000 men). The 2011 census found 465,214 inhabitants, which is over 200,000 fewer than in the 2000 census.

year	Population at the end of the year			Population growth rate (in%)	Gender ratio (women per 1000 men)	Rank (among 81 provinces)
year	total	male	Female	Population growth rate (in%)	Gender ratio (women per 1000 men)	Rank (among 81 provinces)
2018	424.981	211,936	213.045	1.51	1005	46
2017	418,650	208.841	209,809	−0.57	1005	46
2016	421.041	210,600	210,441	0.38	999	46
2015	419,440	209.376	210.064	−3.03	1003	46
2014	432,560	216.152	216.408	−2.62	1001	44
2013	444.211	221,989	222.222	−1.99	1001	44
2012	453.211	226.740	226.471	−2.68	999	44
2011	465.696	233.267	232.429	−2.18	996	43
2010	476.096	237,792	238,304	−2.31	1002	43
2009	487.365	244.172	243.193	0.65	996	41
2008	484.206	242.018	242.188	−1.61	1001	41
2007	492.127	244,674	247.453	-	1011	40
2000	682.919	342,771	340.148			33

Census results

The following tables show the population of the Yozgat Province documented in the 14 censuses .
The values in the table on the left are taken from e-books (from the original documents), the values in the table on the right come from the data query of the Turkish statistical institute TÜIK - available on this website:

year	population		rank
year	province	Turkey	rank
1927	209.497	13,648,270	27
1935	261,821	16.158.018	27
1940	276.611	17,820,950	29
1945	287.371	18,790,174	29
1950	324,469	20,947,188	28
1955	359,612	24,064,763	26th
1960	402,400	27,754,820	27

year	population		rank
year	province	Turkey	rank
1965	437.883	31,391,421	31
1970	464.410	35.605.176	30th
1975	500,371	40,347,719	31
1980	504,433	44,736,957	35
1985	545.301	50,664,458	36
1990	579.150	56.473.035	34
2000	682.919	67,803,927	33

Number of provinces in relation to the census years:

1927, 1940 to 1950: 63 provinces
1935: 57 provinces
1955: 67 provinces
1960 to 1985: 73 provinces
1990: 73 provinces
2000: 81 provinces

Cities

There are 36 cities ( Belediye ) in the province . The following table shows the population at the end of 2018, the corresponding districts, the number of districts ( Mahalle ) and the mayors elected for local elections (with party membership).
The Turkish statistics rarely list the population of the cities ( Belde ), but rather that of the city districts ( Mahalle ). Cities in bold are the main towns ( Merkez ) of the districts.

city	district	Residents 2018	Number of meals	mayor	Political party
Akdağmadeni	Akdağmadeni	21,273	11	Nezih Yalçın	MHP
Araplı	Sorgun	1,829	3	Adem Ertuğrul	MHP
Aydıncık	Aydıncık	3,001	4th	Ahmet Koçak	ACP
Bahadın	Sorgun	2,529	7th	Yurtseven Bozdemir	DSP
Baydiğin	Aydıncık	3,357	1	Osman Uslu	ACP
Belekçahan	Akdağmadeni	1,832	1	Şahin Arısoy	ACP
Boğazlıyan	Boğazlıyan	17,277	11	Gökhan Coşar	ACP
Çandır	Çandır	3,612	10	Mustafa Ertan Örgün	ACP
Çayıralan	Çayıralan	5,547	7th	Ömer Codar	CHP
Çekerek	Çekerek	9,356	6th	Eyup Çakır	ACP
Çiğdemli	Sorgun	2,070	7th	Ahmet Sungur	MHP
Dedefakılı	Saraykent	1,780	2	Haydar Coşkun	ACP
Dogankent	Sorgun	1,713	5	Dogan Sungur	ACP
Eymir	Sorgun	1,950	6th	Çetin Mertoğlu	ACP
Gülşehri	Sorgun	2,004	4th	Ali Ünlü	ACP
Halıköy	Kadışehri	1,830	5	Zeki Şimşek	ACP
Kadışehri	Kadışehri	4,810	9	İrfan Akın	ACP
Karayakup	Sarıkaya	1,743	3	Ahmet Dursel Erdoğan	ACP

city	district	Residents 2018	Number of meals	mayor	Political party
Konuklar	Çayıralan	1,715	3	Muammer Çetin	ACP
Oluközu	Akdağmadeni	1,361	2	Hasan Aydinsoy	MHP
Ovakent	Boğazlıyan	2,451	4th	Yusuf Büyük	ACP
Ozan	Saraykent	1,679	2	Mustafa İleri	BBP
Özukavak	Çekerek	1,335	2	Oğuz Ünal	ACP
Saraykent	Saraykent	6,056	8th	Ahmet Öçal	ACP
Sarıkaya	Sarıkaya	18,041	16	Ömer Açıkel	MHP
Şefaatli	Şefaatli	9,013	11	Müjdat Karaca	MHP
Sırçalı	Boğazlıyan	1515	2	Ferit Koçyiğit	ACP
Sorgun	Sorgun	52.179	15th	Mustafa Erkut Ekinci	MHP
Umutlu	Akdağmadeni	2.017	5	Turan Koç	ACP
Uzunlu	Boğazlıyan	1,527	5	Tekin Becerik	CHP
Yamaçlı	Boğazlıyan	2,678	3	Şaban Altıntaş	ACP
Yenifakılı	Yenifakılı	2,765	5	Soner Yalçın	İYİ
Yenipazar	Boğazlıyan	1,981	6th	Menderes Baran	MHP
Yeniyer	Sorgun	2,262	2	Burhan Güvenç	ACP
Yerkoy	Yerkoy	27,565	14th	Ferhat Yılmaz	İYİ
Yozgat	Merkez	90.163	27	Celal Köse	ACP

Villages

The 558 villages have a total of 111,165 inhabitants, i.e. an average of 199 inhabitants per village. Most of the villages are in the central district ( Merkez ), namely 96. Of all the villages in the province, only four have more than a thousand inhabitants: Kazankaya (1,352), Özler (1,188), Bektaşlı (1,107) and Babayağmur (1,089 inhabitants). 196 of the 558 villages have more than the average (= 199) inhabitants. The proportion of the rural population is 26.16 percent. 14 villages in 2017 became districts ( Mahalle ) of municipalities ( Belediye ) in 2018 , most of them from Kadışehri County (5).

history

The area was inhabited as early as the Neolithic Age. It was presumably at least in the north, hat table , then belonged to the Hetithic empire. In 1398 it was taken by the Ottomans . After a brief annexation by Timur Lenk's troops , the region finally belonged to the Ottoman Empire in 1408 . The city of Yozgat was founded in the 18th century .

In the district of Yozgat, which at that time belonged to the province of Ankara, there were around 33,000 Armenians in 1914, almost all of whom were killed or expelled. The genocide of the Armenians was the subject of the so-called Yozgat trial , a court martial , in early 1919 .

Attractions

Çapanoğlu Camii (Great Mosque)
Çamlık National Park
Saatkulesi (clock tower)
Kaplıca Hamam, healing spring in Sarikaya
Kerkenes , Hittite settlement
Gelingülü Dam (Esenli Kasabası)
Osman Pasha Tekkesi (mosque)

Personalities

Cemil Çiçek (* 1946), President of Parliament
Bekir Bozdağ (* 1965), Minister of Justice
Taner Yıldız (* 1962), Minister of Energy
Nasuh Akar (1925-1984), wrestler
Celal Atik (1917-1979), wrestler

literature

Armenians in Turkey 100 years ago. With postcards from the collector Orlando Carlo Calumeno. Edited by Osman Köker, Birzamanlar Verlag, Istanbul 2005. ISBN 975-6158-01-8 .