Mertekli | |
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Village | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | Erzincan Province |
Time zone | UTC+3 |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Mertekli is a village in the Erzincan District of Erzincan Province in Turkey. [1]
Erzincan (pronounced [æɾˈzindʒan]; is the capital of Erzincan Province in Eastern Turkey. Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bingöl, Elâzığ, Malatya, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, and Giresun. The city is majority Sunni Turkish with a significant Alevi and Kurdish minority.
Erzincan Province is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. In Turkey, its capital is also called Erzincan. The population was 224,949 in 2010.
The 1939 Erzincan earthquake struck eastern Turkey at 1:57:23 a.m. on 27 December local time with a moment magnitude of 7.8 Mw and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). This was one of the largest in a sequence of violent shocks to affect Turkey along the North Anatolian Fault between 1939 and 1999. Surface rupturing, with an horizontal displacement of up to 3.7 meters, occurred in a 360 km long segment of the North Anatolian Fault Zone. The earthquake was the most severe natural loss of life in Turkey in the 20th century, with 32,968 dead, and some 100,000 injured.
Erzincan Dam is an embankment dam on Cardakli Creek in Erzincan, Turkey. The development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works.
The Governor of Erzincan is responsible for the implementation of government legislation within Erzincan Province, Turkey. The governorship is a civil service office appointed by the government of Turkey. The Governor is also the most senior commander of both the Erzincan provincial police force and the Erzincan Gendarmerie.
Monument of the Martyrs of Internal Security is a memorial and military cemetery in Erzincan Province, Turkey dedicated to 1887 Turkish troops under the Third Army killed by PKK militias in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present). Names of all 1887 KIA's are known and written on walls of the monument.
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