Sarıcan () is 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 ...
'') in
Karakoçan District
Karakoçan District is a district of Elazığ Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Karakoçan.[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 ...]
, Turkey.
[Belde Belediyesi]
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 21 December 2022. Its population is 2,173 (2021).
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 Bekiran tribe.
References
Town municipalities in Turkey
Populated places in Elazığ Province
Karakoçan District
Kurdish settlements in Elazığ Province
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