Tunceli Province

Tunceli Province
Tunceli Province
Province
	Munzur River runs through the province
	Location within Turkey
Country	Turkey
Established	25 December 1935
Seat	Tunceli
Government
• Governor	Bülent Tekbıyıkoğlu
Area	7,582 km2 (2,927 sq mi)
Population (2023)	89,317
• Density	12/km2 (31/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Area code	0428
Website	www.tunceli.gov.tr

Tunceli Province (Turkish: Tunceli ili), formerly Dersim Province (Kurdish: Parêzgeha Dêrsim; Zazaki: Dêsim wilayet; Armenian: Դերսիմի մարզ), is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.^[3] Its central city is Tunceli. The province is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan and has a Kurdish majority. Moreover, it is the only province in Turkey with an Alevi majority.^[4]^[5] The province has eight municipalities, 366 villages and 1,087 hamlets.^[3]

^ Cite error: The named reference tuik was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Area codes page of Turkish Telecom website Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
^ ^a ^b "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^ Watts, Nicole F. (2010). Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (Studies in Modernity and National Identity). Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-295-99050-7.
^ "Kurds, Kurdistān". Encyclopaedia of Islam (2 ed.). BRILL. 2002. ISBN 9789004161214.

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[2] Area codes page of Turkish Telecom website Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)

[:03-3] "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.

[4] Watts, Nicole F. (2010). Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (Studies in Modernity and National Identity). Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-295-99050-7.

[IslamEncyclopaedia-5] "Kurds, Kurdistān". Encyclopaedia of Islam (2 ed.). BRILL. 2002. ISBN 9789004161214.

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