Çetenli is a village in
Doğubayazıt District
Doğubayazıt District is a district of Ağrı Province in Turkey. Its seat is the town Doğubayazıt.[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 ...]
,
Turkey
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. Its population is 867 (2021).
The name of the village comes from the çeten plant, of which the village has a large number of fields.
Located in
Agri Province, the town is located 18
km from the town of
Dogubayazit, and is in the shadow of the
biblical
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Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat, also known as Masis or Mount Ağrı, is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in Eastern Turkey, easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest p ...
.
The climate is
mountain
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ous and cold to temperate.
The village population has fluctuated greatly. In 2007 it was 3000 while in 2000, it was 1076 and in 1997, 1674.
The village economy is based on
agriculture
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and
animal husbandry
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and has a
school
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, medical center and a potable drinking water supply, but there is no sewerage nor post office.
The village has
asphalt
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* Bitumen, also known as "liquid asphalt cement" or simply "asphalt", a viscous form of petroleum mainly used as a binder in asphalt concrete
* Asphalt concrete, a mixture of bitumen with coarse and fine aggregates, u ...
roads connecting it,
electricity
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and landline
telephone
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.
References
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Iran–Turkey border crossings
Villages in Doğubayazıt District