İmranlı ( ku, Macîran), is a town and a district of
Sivas Province
Sivas Province ( tr, ) is a province of Turkey. It is largely located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolia region of Turkey; it is the second largest province in Turkey by territory. Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat to the west, Kayseri ...
of
Turkey
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. Population is 6,600 (2005
census
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). The mayor was Murat Açıl (
CHP). The town is located at 108 km to
Sivas. It became a district on January 1, 1948, while it was a part of the
Zara district.
Demographics
The town is populated by Sunni
Turks and
Kurdish Alevis. 65 villages in the district are populated by
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
Alevis.
Population
The population of İmranlı district slowly increased to a maximum of 32,253 people between 1950 and 1965. In the 1970s there was a high level of emigration: people left the district because of the lack of social capacities and economic investment, especially towards Western Europe and larger cities in Turkey. Since 2007, the population of the district has been relatively stable, fluctuating between 7,200 and 7,700 inhabitants. The population development of the district is shown in the graph below.
Census 1990
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Settlements
İmranlı district consists of the sole town İmranlı and 102 small villages.
References
Populated places in Sivas Province
Districts of Sivas Province
Kurdish settlements in Turkey
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