Karacaoğlan is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

Mut Mut (; also transliterated as Maut and Mout) was a mother goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt. Her name means ''mother'' in the ancient Egyptian language. Mut had many different aspects and attributes that changed and evolved greatly over th ...

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. Its population is 274 (2022). It is situated in

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to the east of Mut and to the south of

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canyon. It is a rather isolated village; the distance to Mut is and to

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is . The population of the village is composed of

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. The former name of the village was Çukur. But after the tomb of the famous Turkish folk poet

Karacaoğlan Karacaoğlan was a 17th-century Anatolian Turkish folk poet and ashik. His exact dates of birth and death are unknown but it is widely accepted that he was born around 1606 and died around 1679. He lived around the city of Osmaniye. His tomb, wh ...

(1606-1680) was discovered in the village graveyard, it was renamed after Karacaoğlan.Village page
/ref> Main economic activity of Karacaoğlan is agriculture.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Karacaoglan, Mut Neighbourhoods in Mut District