Kemaliye

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Kemaliye formerly EGIN (Armenian Ակն - Akn ) is a town and administrative center of the homonymous district in the Turkish province of Erzincan. The town has 2,142 inhabitants Kemaliye and the county 5,002 (as of 2011 ). Kemaliye located in the southwest of the province and borders the provinces of Sivas, Malatya, Tunceli and Elazığ.

History

The ancient city was founded around the year 1023 Akn of vassal of the Armenian king Seneqerim John, the last ruler of the Empire of südarmenischen Vaspurakan. By 1915, at the beginning of the Armenian genocide, the Armenian Apostolic community had two churches ( Surp Kevork and Surp Asdvadzadzin ) and two monasteries ( Surp Krikor Narekazi and Gosmas Tamianos ) in the city EGIN.

The name Kemaliye was elected in 1922 and served to honor the country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The official name was changed 1926.

Famous people

  • Ebu Sehil Nu'man Efendi ( 1700 - after 1750 ), Ottoman legal scholar and chronicler
  • Avedis Bedros Arpiarian XIV (1856-1937), Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia
  • Atom Jertschanian aka Siamanto (1878-1915), writer and victims of the Armenian genocide
  • Krikor Torosyan aka Gigo (1884-1915), Armenian satirist, cartoonist, journalist and publisher
  • Zakar Tarver (1893-1060), Turkish radiologist Armenian descent
  • Ali Coşkun ( born 1939 ), former Trade and Industry Minister
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