Below is the list of populated places in Tunceli Province, Turkey by the districts. In the following lists first place in each list is the administrative center of the district. [1]
Below is the list of populated places in Tunceli Province, Turkey by the districts. In the following lists first place in each list is the administrative center of the district. [1]
Tunceli is a city in Turkey. It is the capital of Tunceli Province, located in the middle of Eastern Anatolia Region.
Çemişgezek, Ottoman Turkish: چمشکزک, Medieval Greek: Chosomachon) is a small Turkish city and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province of Turkey. The city has a population of 2,819, while whole district has a population of 7,929. The mayor is Ahmet Şadan Ersoy (CHP).
Hozat is a small city and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province of Turkey. It has a population of 4,714. Seyfi Geyik from the Republican People's Party (CHP) was elected mayor in the local elections in March 2019. Kaymakam is Cuma Emeç.
Mazgirt, is a small city and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province of Turkey. The city has a population of 1,712, most of which are Alevi. The current mayor is Murat Becerikli from the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Kaymakam is Menderes Topçuoĝlu.
Ovacık may refer to the following places in Turkey:
Pertek is a small city and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province of modern Turkey. Pertag, means "tiny fortress" in Armenian.
Pülümür is a small city and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province, Turkey. The mayor is Müslüm Tosun (CHP). The city has a population of 1,656. The politician Hüseyin Kenan Aydın was born here in 1962. Also the politician Senol Akkılıç who is a Member of the Provincial Parliament with the Green Party in Vienna, Austria was born in Pülümür in 1965.
Nazımiye is a district of Tunceli, Turkey. The town has a population of 1,636. It was also known as Kızıl Kilise.
Ovacık is a town and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province of Turkey. It has a population of 3,227. It was the first town to elect a communist mayor, Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu, member of the Communist Party of Turkey. He made public transport free of charge and in 2017 he opened a municipal agricultural cooperative which produced chickpeas, beans and honey and according to Maçoğlu gave work to 250 people. In the Municipal elections of 2019 Mustafa Sarigül from the CHP was elected mayor.
The Dersim rebellion was an Alevi-Zaza uprising against the Turkish government in the Dersim region of eastern Turkey, which includes parts of Tunceli Province, Elazığ Province, and Bingöl Province. The rebellion was led by Seyid Riza, an Alevi-Zaza chieftain of the Yukarı Abbas Uşağı tribe. As a result of the Turkish Armed Forces campaign in 1937 and 1938 against the rebellion and its massacres of civilians, thousands of Alevi-Zazas died and many others were internally displaced.
The Vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz, also referred to as Harput Vilayet was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was also one of the Six vilayets. The vilayet was located between Euphrates and Murat river valleys. To the northwest was Sivas Vilayet.
Payamdüzü is a village in Çemişgezek district of Tunceli Province, Turkey. At 38°58′N38°59′E it is situated at the north of the Keban Dam resorvoir. Distance to Çemişgezek is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) and to Tunceli is 110 kilometres (68 mi). The population of Payamdüzü is 565 as of 2011. The original name of the village was Sinsor which was changed to Payamdüzü in 1947, upon the suggestion of Kâzım Karabekir. The main economic activity of the village is cattle breeding.
Sarıbalta is a village in the Çemişgezek district of Tunceli Province, Turkey. At 39°00′N38°57′E, it is situated at the north of the Keban Dam resorvoir. The distance to Çemişgezek is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) and to Tunceli is 115 kilometres (71 mi). The population of Sarıbalta is 591 inhabitants as of 2011. The town was founded by people from the Şakak tribe either from Diyarbakır or from Khorasan.
Darıkent is a small belde (town) in Mazgirt district of Tunceli Province, Turkey. It is situated at the east of the province. The distance to Mazgirt is 21 kilometres (13 mi) and to Tunceli is 62 kilometres (39 mi). The population of Darıkent is 405 (2011). In 1989, the settlement was declared a seat of township, but due to migrations to cities, the population has decreased.
Koyungölü is a village in Ovacık district of Tunceli Province, Turkey. At 39°21′N39°07′E it is situated in the valley of the Munzur river. The distance to Ovacık is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) and to Tunceli is 72 kilometres (45 mi). The population of Koyungölü is 350 as of 2011. Like most villages around, the main economic activities are animal breeding and agriculture.
There is considerable dialectal variation in Turkish.
Tunceli Province, formerly Dersim Province, is located in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The least densely-populated province in Turkey, it was originally named Dersim Province, then demoted to a district and incorporated into Elâzığ Province in 1926. Many still call the region by its original name. The name of the provincial capital, Kalan, was changed to Tunceli to match the province's name. Tunceli is the only province in Turkey wih an Alevi majority, and Zazas are the largest ethnic group.
The Maoist insurgency in Turkey, also known as the People's War in Turkey, is an ongoing low-level insurgency in eastern Turkey between the Turkish government and Maoist rebels that began in the early 1970s. The insurgency declined in the late 1980s and 1990s and has been sidelined by the larger Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present). Low-level armed attacks continue to be carried out by Maoist insurgent groups, the most significant of which are the Liberation Army of the Workers and Peasants of Turkey (TİKKO) and the People's Liberation Army (HKO) and People's Partisan Forces (PHG), both armed wings of the Maoist Communist Party.
Pertek Castle is a castle in the Pertek district of the Tunceli province in Turkey.
The Battle of Tekiryaylağı took place on Summer 1515 nearby Ovacık, Tunceli and ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. It marked the halt of the Safavid offensive over the North Anatolia. The Tekiryaylağı battle was just the one of 41 years of destructive war, which only ended in 1555 with the Treaty of Amasya. Safavid commander Nur-Ali Khalifa as well as most of his troops were killed at the battlefield. But Aykutoğlu Bey survived.
