Alay is a town (''

belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the villages (and also subdistricts) are usually too small to have ...

'') in the Niğde District,

Niğde Province Niğde Province ( tr, ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in the southern part of Central Anatolia, Turkey. Population is 341,412 (2013 est) of which 141,360 live in the city of Niğde. The population was 348,081 in 2000 and 305,861 in 1990. It ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. Its population is 3,038 (2022). It is situated north of Niğde. The town may be very old. According to Mayor's page it was named after İsmail Bahri Mahmut, a commander of a regiment ( tr, Alay). The settlement was declared a seat of township in 1988. The main crops of the town are potato and wheat.

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Town municipalities in Turkey Populated places in Niğde District {{Niğde-geo-stub