Karayılan (literally "black snake") is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

İskenderun İskenderun (), historically known as Alexandretta (, ) and Scanderoon, is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 247 km2, and its population is 251,682 (2022). It is on the Mediterranean coas ...

Hatay Province Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province ...

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. Its population is 9,074 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''

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 ...

'').

Geography

Karayılan is situated to the east of Turkish state highway D.817 and

Çukurova Motorway Çukurova (), or the Cilician Plain (''Cilicia Pedias'' in antiquity), is a large fertile plain in the Cilicia region of southern Anatolia. The plain covers the easternmost areas of Mersin Province, southern and central Adana Province, western Os ...

. Distance to İskenderun is and to

Antakya Antakya (), Turkish form of Antioch, is a municipality and the capital Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is . Prior to the devastating 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, 2023 earthquakes, its population was recorded ...

(administrative center of Hatay Province) is .

History

The name of the town refers to a 17th-century Turkmen family. In 1691 the Ottoman government tried to settle the nomads. The nomads struggled to continue their traditional lifestyle. Although the government punished them by exiling to

Rakka Eyalet The eyalet of Rakka or Urfa (; ) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was . The eyalet was created in 1586 on territory previously under the jurisdiction of Diyarbekir. By Stefan Winter In the 16th century, ...

(now in

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) they were able to return. But at the end of continuous struggles, towards the end of the 18th century, three families gave up and agreed to settle where they were assigned to. It was designated as a town on November 29, 1989. In 1990, Karayılan was declared a seat of township.

Economy

Cereals and citrus are among the major crops. Many residents work in Isdemir (steel works)

References

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