Erzincan | |
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 View of Erzincan | |
  Erzincan Location in Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 39°44′47″N 39°29′29″E / 39.74639°N 39.49139°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Erzincan |
| District | Erzincan |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Bekir Aksun (MHP) |
| Population (2022) | 150,714 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Website | www |
Erzincan (pronounced [æɾˈzindʒan];[1] Kurdish: Erzîngan), historically Yerznka (Armenian: Երզնկա),[2] is the capital of Erzincan Province in eastern Turkey.[3] Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, and Giresun. The city is majority Sunni Turkish with an Alevi Kurdish minority.[4]
The city had a population of 150,714 in 2022, an increase from 86,779 in 2007.[5]
- ^ Barış Kabak and Irene Vogel, "The phonological word and stress assignment in Turkish"[permanent dead link], Phonology 18 (2001), p. 325.
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:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Atabaki, Touraj; Dorleijn, Margreet (1991). Kurdistan in Search of Ethnic Identity. University of Utrecht. p. 17.
- ^ "Address Based Population Registration System Results". Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 February 2023.