Musabeyli_District

Musabeyli District

Musabeyli District

District in Kilis, Turkey

Musabeyli District is a district of Kilis Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Musabeyli.[1] The district is mostly populated by Turks but also Kurds, Romani people and Arabs.[2] It had a total population of 12,390 in 2022.[3] Its area is 346 km2.[4]

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Composition

There is one municipality in Musabeyli District:[1]

There are 46 villages in Musabeyli District:[5]

History

Out of the 74 settlements he listed in the Ottoman nahiyah of Musabekli, 19th-century traveler Martin Hartmann noted 41 as Turkish (with a total of 554 households), 25 as Kurdish (247 households), 1 as Turkish and Abdal mixed (10 households), and 7 without any information on the population.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  2. [2]
    Erberdi, Ebru. "Farklı kültürden insanların yaşadığı ilçe: Musabeyli". Sözcü. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) - Results of 31 December 2022" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  4. [4]
    "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  5. [5]
    Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  6. [6]
    Hartmann, Martin (1894). Das liwa Haleb (Aleppo) und ein Teil des Liwa Dschebel Bereket. Berlin: W. Pormetter. pp. 100–101. Retrieved 30 November 2022.


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