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Tortum
Erzurumtown
Tortum
Total population
15,173
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City facts
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Overview
Tortum is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,463 km2, and its population is 15,259 (2022). The current mayor is Muammer Yiğider from the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
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History
Tortum was part of the area known as Diaueni, Tayk or Tao and was ruled by Hayasa-Azzians, Diauehi, Urartians, Iberians, Armenians, Romans, Persians and Byzantines. Tortum was a part of some proto-Armenian states (Hayasa-Azzi; Urartu), proto-Georgian Kingdom of Iberia (4th - 2nd centuries BC) and Kingdom of Greater Armenia (2nd century BC - 5th century). Between the 9th and 16th century it was part of the Kingdom of the Iberians, Kingdom of Georgia and Georgian principality of Samtskhe-Saatabago. It was first an Ottoman vassal in the early 16th century and was annexed in 1550. The area of Tortum was contested by the Safavids and the Ottoman Empire in the 16th-17th century but remained Ottoman after 1625.
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Geography
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Notable people from here
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Nearby places in Erzurum
- Felonica1559 mi away · pop. 1,359
- Poggio Rusco1570.7 mi away · pop. 6,297
- Villa Poma1570.8 mi away · pop. 1,621
- Pieve di Coriano1571.1 mi away · pop. 895
- San Giovanni del Dosso1572.3 mi away · pop. 1,180
- San Giacomo delle Segnate1574.7 mi away · pop. 1,704
- San Giacomo Po1582.6 mi away · pop. 329
- Mottella1584.1 mi away · pop. 8,019
- San Nicolò Po1584.3 mi away · pop. 279
- Pietole1585.4 mi away
- Pellaloco1585.8 mi away
- Castiglione Mantovano1586.2 mi away
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Books about Tortum
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image