Sarıcan () 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
Karakoçan District
Karakoçan District is a district of Elazığ Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Karakoçan.[Elazığ Province
Elazığ Province ( tr, ; Zazaki: Suke Xarpêt; ku, Parêzgeha Xarpêtê) is a province of Turkey with its seat in the city of Elazığ. The province had a population of 568,753 in 2014. The population of the province was 569,616 in 2000 and 49 ...]
, Turkey.
[Belde Belediyesi]
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 21 December 2022. Its population is 2,173 (2021).
It is populated by
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...
of the Bekiran tribe.
References
Town municipalities in Turkey
Populated places in Elazığ Province
Karakoçan District
Kurdish settlements in Elazığ Province
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