Çağlayan () is a municipality (
belde
Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish.
All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...
) in the
Erzincan District
Erzincan District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central" in Turkish) is a district of the Erzincan Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Erzincan.[Erzincan Province
Erzincan Province (; ; ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. In Turkey, its capital is also called Erzincan. Its area is 11,815 km2, and its population is 239,223 (2022).
Geography
Erzincan is trav ...]
,
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
.
It is populated by
Kurds
Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...
of the Abasan and Balan tribes and had a population of 1,699 in 2021.
The neighborhoods are Atatürk, Cumhuriyet, Derebağ, Erdene, Mertekli, Şelale and Yamaçlı.
References
Kurdish settlements in Erzincan Province
Town municipalities in Turkey
Populated places in Erzincan District
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