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Ağrı District
Ağrı District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of Ağrı Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city Ağrı.İl Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
Its area is 1,695 km2, and its population is 150,335 (2021).


Composition

There is one in Ağrı District: * There are 107

Kayabey, Ağrı
Kayabey is a village in the Ağrı District of Ağrı Province, Turkey. History Kayabey has been known by its current name since 1902 and was formerly part of Eleşkirt Eleşkirt () is a town of Ağrı Province in Turkey. It is the seat of Eleşkirt District.İl ...
district before being transferred to Ağrı Merkez on September 17, 1985. The name of the village was listed as Kayabey in historical records from 1902.


Geography

The village is located 14 km from the city center of Ağrı.


Population


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Ağrı
Ağrı (; ) is a city in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. It is the seat of Ağrı Province and Ağrı District.İl Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
Its population is 120,390 (2021). It was formerly known as Karaköse. In the early Turkish republican period and until 1946, it was officially known as Karakilise. the city is now named after Ağrı, the Turkish name of Mount Ararat''.''


History

Ağrı has old settlements such as Doğubeyazıt and Patnos, whose origins date back to the Middle Ages and the Islamic period. Over a long period of time, the region became part of the Urartu, Urartians, the Achaemenid Empire, the Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonian Empire founded by Alexander the Great, Alexander, the Seleuc ...
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Districts Of Turkey
The Provinces of Turkey, 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the Ottoman Empire and in the early Turkish Republic, the corresponding unit was the ''qadaa, kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respective provincial capital (political), capital districts. However, many urban provinces, designated as greater municipalities, have a center consisting of multiple districts, such as the provincial capital of Ankara Province, Ankara province, Ankara, The City of Ankara, comprising nine separate districts. Additionally three provinces, Kocaeli, Sakarya, and Hatay have their capital district named differently from their province, as İzmit, Adapazarı, and Antakya respectively. A district may cover both rural and urban areas. In many provinces, one district of a province is designated the central district (''merkez ilçe'') from which the district is administered. The central district is administered by an appointed pr ...
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Ağrı Province
Ağrı Province () is located in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran to the east and the Provinces of Turkey, provinces of Kars Province, Kars to the north, Erzurum Province, Erzurum to the northwest, Muş Province, Muş and Bitlis Province, Bitlis to the southwest, Van Province, Van to the south, and Iğdır Province, Iğdır to the northeast. Its area is 11,099 km2, and its population is 511,238 (2023). The provincial capital is Ağrı, situated on a high plateau. Doğubayazıt was the capital of the province until 1946. The current Wāli#Turkish term, governor is Mustafa Koç. The province is considered part of Western Armenia and was part of the ancient province of Ayrarat of Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Kingdom of Armenia. Before the Armenian genocide, modern Ağri Province was part of the Six vilayets, six Armenian vilayets. The majority of the province's population are ethnic Kurds. Districts Ağrı province is divided into eight Districts of Turkey, districts (capit ...
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TÜİK
Turkish Statistical Institute (commonly known as TurkStat; or TÜİK) is the Turkish government agency commissioned with producing official statistics on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It was founded in 1926 and headquartered in Ankara. Formerly named as the State Institute of Statistics (Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü (DİE)), the institute was renamed as the Turkish Statistical Institute on November 18, 2005. See also * List of Turkish provinces by life expectancy References External linksOfficial website of the institute National statistical services Statistical Organizations established in 1926 Organizations based in Ankara {{Sci-org-stub ...
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Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special district (United States), special-purpose district. The English language, English word is derived from French language, French , which in turn derives from the Latin language, Latin , based on the word for social contract (), referring originally to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction (area), jurisdiction, from a sovereign state s ...
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Villages Of Turkey
A village (, ''karye'' in the Ottoman era) is the second smallest settlement unit in Turkey. The 51 regular provinces of Turkey and 30 province-level Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipalities are divided into Districts of Turkey, districts. A 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, 2013 reform converted all 16,803 villages in the metropolitan municipalities, into neighborhoods () of the districts. Remaining villages are in the rural areas of the districts in regular provinces, and have about 8.7% of the country's population. Each village or neighborhood elects a ''muhtar (title), muhtar''. Some more populous villages have been incorporated as towns (), but in the others, the muhtar is responsible for all village services. As of 2023, there are 18,277 villages and 32,261 neighbourhoods in Turkey. Abolished subdistricts During the early years of the Turkish Republic, subdistricts called bucak (administrative unit), bucak had been established for th ...
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