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
Elazığ Province
Elazığ () is a city in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, and the administrative centre of Elazığ Province and Elazığ District. Founded in and around the former city of Harput, it is located in the uppermost Euph ...
of
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 the seat of
Maden District
Maden District is a district of Elazığ Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Maden.İlçe ...
.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 December 2022. Its population is 3,662 (2021). The mayor is Orhan Yavuz
Nationalist Movement Party
The Nationalist Movement Party, or alternatively translated as Nationalist Action Party (, MHP), is a Turkish Far-right politics, far-right, ultranationalism, ultranationalist Political parties in Turkey, political party. The group is often de ...
(MHP).
Demographics
According to the
Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople
Armenian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...
, there were 10,559 Armenians in the
kaza
A kaza (, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It is also discussed in English under the names district, subdistrict, and juridical district. Kazas co ...
of Maden on the eve of the First World War, maintaining ten churches, two monasteries and seven schools. They were all massacred in July 1915, by being thrown in a crevasse in
Çüngüş
Çüngüş (, , ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 512 km2, and its population is 10,720 (2022).
Çüngüş was an Armenian bishopric an Armenian Church was constructed in 1841. It was a large and fl ...
Fatih Kısaparmak
Fatih Güngör Kısaparmak ( b. 31 January 1961) is a Turkish folk music artist, songwriter, composer, poet, musician, television presenter, and baglama virtuoso. Albums
* ''Kilim - Nazlı Bebe'' (1987) ( Ferdifon Music)
* ''Yarına Kaç Var - ...