Turkey
Erzincan Province
Tercan İlçesi

Tercan

Tercan is a town and seat of Tercan District of in the Eastern Anatolia region of . It had a population of 4,846 in 2021. Located on the north bank of the Tuzla Su, a tributary of the , Tercan is especially notable for the…
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  • Type: Town with 17,400 residents
  • Description: district and town in Erzincan, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Mamahatun”, “Mamakhatun”, and “Mamhatun”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tercan Dam.

Dam
is an embankment dam on the Tuzla River in , . Constructed between 1969 and 1988, the development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works. is situated 3 km southeast of Tercan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Topalhasan and Aktaş.

Village
is a village in the Tercan District, , . The village had a population of 21 in 2021. is situated 3 km northwest of Tercan.

Village
is a village in the Tercan District, , . The village had a population of 47 in 2021. The hamlets of Altınca, Fettah, Sırmalı and Zincirli are attached to the village. is situated 4 km north of Tercan.

Village
is a village in the Tercan District, , . The village had a population of 123 in 2021. is situated 4 km southwest of Tercan.

Tercan

Latitude
39.77649° or 39° 46′ 35″ north
Longitude
40.383° or 40° 22′ 59″ east
Population
17,400
Elevation
1,412 metres (4,633 feet)
Open location code
8HF2Q9GM+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27031568
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
299268
Wiki­data ID
Q2665536
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tercan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ترجان”
  • Armenian: “Դերջան”
  • Armenian: “Դերջանի գավառակ”
  • Armenian: “Թերջան”
  • Armenian: “Մամախաթուն”
  • Armenian: “Մանավազ”
  • Armenian: “Տերջան”
  • Asturian: “Tercan (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Tercan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tərcan”
  • Catalan: “Tercan”
  • Cebuano: “Tercan İlçesi”
  • Central Kurdish: “تێرجان”
  • Chechen: “Терджан”
  • Chinese: “Tercan”
  • Chinese: “得泽涅军”
  • Chinese: “得泽涅军区”
  • Chinese: “泽尔泽内”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mamaxatune”
  • Dutch: “Tercan”
  • Esperanto: “Tercan”
  • French: “Tercan”
  • German: “Tercan”
  • Hebrew: “דרג’אן”
  • Irish: “Tercan”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Tercan”
  • Japanese: “テルジャン”
  • Kurdish: “Têrcan”
  • Malay: “Tercan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tercan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tercan”
  • Norwegian: “Tercan”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “ترجان”
  • Persian: “ترجان (ترکیه)”
  • Persian: “ترجان”
  • Portuguese: “Tercan”
  • Portuguese: “Terjane”
  • Russian: “Терджан”
  • Serbian: “Терџан”
  • Swahili: “Tercan”
  • Tatar: “Терҗан”
  • Turkish: “Tercan”
  • Urdu: “ترجان”
  • Uzbek: “Tercan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tercan”
  • Western Armenian: “Դերջան”
  • Western Armenian: “Թերճան”
  • Western Mari: “Терджан”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ترجان”
  • “Tercan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tercan”. Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.