Battalgazi, ( ku, Melediya kevn), is a town and district of

Malatya Province Malatya Province ( tr, ; ku, Parezgêha Meletîyê) is a province of Turkey. It is part of a larger mountainous area. The capital of the province is Malatya. The area of Malatya province is 12,313 km². Malatya Province had a population of ...

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

. The mayor is Selahattin Gürkan ( AKP). Formerly named

Eskimalatya Battalgazi, ( ku, Melediya kevn), is a town and district of Malatya Province of Turkey. The mayor is Selahattin Gürkan ( AKP). Formerly named Eskimalatya (''Old Malatya''), the center town corresponds to the previous location of Malatya city, ...

(''Old Malatya''), the center town corresponds to the previous location of

Malatya Malatya ( hy, Մալաթիա, translit=Malat'ya; Syro-Aramaic ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ku, Meletî; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a large city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city h ...

city, at a distance of 20 km from the modern day urban center and provincial seat of

. The town was renamed in honor of

Battal Gazi Seyyid Battal Ghazi is a Turkish warrior based in Anatolia (associated primarily with Malatya, where his father, Hüseyin Gazi, was the ruler,) based on the real-life exploits of the 8th-century Umayyad military leader Abdallah al-Battal. His attr ...

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Populated places in Malatya Province Districts of Malatya Province Kurdish settlements in Turkey {{Malatya-geo-stub

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