Taşlıçay

Taşlıçay (Kurdish: Avkevir‎)[3] is a town and district of Ağrı Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is located in the valley of the Murat River on the road from the city of Ağrı to Doğubeyazıt and Turkey's border with Iran. It covers an area of 798 km², and the altitude is 1,660 m. The population, as of 2012, is 22,589, of which 6,284 live in the town of Taşlıçay and the remainder on the surrounding countryside. The mayor is İsmail Taşdemir (AKP).

Taşlıçay
Taşlıçay
Coordinates: 39°32′24″N 43°40′38″E
CountryTurkey
ProvinceAğrı
Government
 • Mayorİsmail Taşdemir (AKP)
 • KaymakamErcan Ateş
Area
 • District834.47 km2 (322.19 sq mi)
Population
 (2012)[2]
 • Urban
6,284
 • District
22,589
 • District density27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Post code
04800
Websitewww.taslicay.bel.tr

Taşlıçay is surrounded by high mountains (2,000m plus), including; to the north Perili, Balıkgölü (3,159 m) and Ziyarettepe (1,800 m) of the South Aras range; and to the south the Aladağlar, including Muratbaşı (Koçbaşı) (3,510 m) and Kandil (2,750 m).

History
Main article: Ağrı Province

A burial mound (höyük) to the south of Taşlıçay and numerous other ruins in the district indicate a long and varied human presence in the region. There is an Urartu temple and an Armenian monastery on the hill above the village of Taşteker.

Taşlıçay today

The people live by farming, mainly raising livestock. Although the mountainsides cannot be farmed the land in the valley is fertile, watered in the spring melt by streams running into the Murat, and is used for growing beet and grains. Summers are hot, winters are cold and snowy (permanent snow lies above 2,700). In summer the villagers move up the mountainside to graze animals in high meadow, including on the banks of Lake Balık (which contains trout and carp).

The population includes a community of Shiites.[4]

The town of Taşliçay is a majority ethnically Kurdish town with a large Azeri(Both Kurdified and non Kurdified),and Karapapak Turk population.

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References
  1. "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  3. Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  4. Agri.pol.tr - Taşlıçay
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