Musabeyli District
Musabeyli District is a district of Kilis Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Musabeyli. The district is mostly populated by Turks but also Kurds, Romani people and Arabs. It had a total population of 12,390 in 2022. Its area is 346 km.
Composition
There is one municipality in Musabeyli District:
There are 46 villages in Musabeyli District:
- Ağcakent
- Aşağıbademli
- Aşağıkalecik
- Balıklı
- Belentepe
- Bozkaya
- Çayıraltı
- Çınarköy
- Dorucak
- Dutluca
- Fericek
- Fırlaklı
- Geçitboyu
- Gökmusa
- Gözlüce
- Gündeğer
- Hacılar
- Hasancalı
- Haydarlar
- Hüseyinoğlu
- Karadut
- Karbeyaz
- Kayapınar
- Kaynaklı
- Kızılkent
- Koçcağız
- Kolpınar
- Körahmethüyüğü
- Kozlubağ
- Kurtaran
- Kürtüncü
- Madenyolu
- Sabanlı
- Şenlikçe
- Tahtalıkaradut
- Tokaçgemriği
- Topallar
- Üçpınar
- Uğurtepe
- Yastıca
- Yedigöz
- Yeşiloba
- Yukarıbademli
- Yukarıkalecik
- Yuvabaşı
- Zeytinbağı
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.
References
- ^ İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ Erberdi, Ebru. "Farklı kültürden insanların yaşadığı ilçe: Musabeyli". Sözcü. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) - Results of 31 December 2022" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ^ Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ^ Hartmann, Martin (1894). Das liwa Haleb (Aleppo) und ein Teil des Liwa Dschebel Bereket. Berlin: W. Pormetter. pp. 100–101. Retrieved 30 November 2022.