Talas

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Talas

Total population

157,695

Coordinates38.69°, 35.55°

Demographic figures from TurkStat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Talas is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 444 km2, and its population is 169,214 (2022). It is located about 7 km from the city of Kayseri and has evolved from an independent town to a satellite city of Kayseri. Talas is connected to Kayseri by road and by the Kayseray mass transit system.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Emel Heinreich

Turkish-Austrian actress, author and film-director

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Menekşe Toprak

Turkish translator and writer (born 1970)

Isaac of Armenia

Armenian saint

Gregory of Nyssa

bishop of Nyssa

Macrina the Younger

4th-century Roman nun

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Macrina the Elder

Mother of Saint Basil the Elder

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Latife Tekin

Turkish writer (born 1957)

Saint Savvas the Sanctified

Byzantine monk

İbrahim Öztürk

Turkish association football player (born 1981)

İhsan Ketin

Turkish geologist (1914–1995)

İlhan Parlak

Turkish association football player (born 1987)

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İsmet Özel

Turkish poet and writer (born 1944)

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Prohaeresius

ancient Greek rhetorician from Caesareia of Cappadocia

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Ahmet Toprak

Turkish-German writer (born 1970)

Atilla Engin

Turkish-American musician (1946–2019)

Amphilochius of Iconium

bishop of Iconium

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Kayseri

• Melikgazi
  3 mi away · pop. 555,671
• Kayseri
  3.9 mi away · pop. 1,389,680
• Kocasinan
  4.2 mi away · pop. 391,661
• Hacılar
  6.3 mi away · pop. 12,482
• Bünyan
  19.7 mi away · pop. 25,950
• Incesu
  20.3 mi away · pop. 25,614
• Develi
  21.3 mi away · pop. 65,322
• Tomarza
  21.7 mi away · pop. 22,818
• Felahiye
  27.5 mi away · pop. 5,769
• Özvatan
  29.6 mi away · pop. 3,865
• Yeşilhisar
  34.3 mi away · pop. 15,854
• Sarıoğlan
  34.8 mi away · pop. 13,936

Browse all places in Kayseri →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Talas

Talas

İlyas Han Şahin · 2014

Talas'ta zaman

Metin Atamer · 2011

Talas anıları, 1950-1954

Kâni Mutlugün Gökpınar · 1995

146 Basamakli Serüven

Collective · 2017

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