Damar (meaning mineral ore) is a village in the
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Artvin Province
Artvin Province ( tr, ; ka, , ''Artvinis p’rovincia''; Laz: ართვინიშ დობადონა ''Artviniş dobadona'') is a province in Turkey, on the Black Sea coast in the northeastern corner of the country, on the border w ...
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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 ...
. It lies just to the south east of Murgul. The town was once a district center, but in 1950 its status was reduced to a township (''
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 2013, it became a village.
İşte Kapatılacak 559 Belde !
kamudan.com, 10 October 2012. Damar is a mining town and is one of the main producers of copper in Turkey.
Population
See also
* Damar mine
References
Villages in Murgul District
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