Palu
Palu is a town of Elazığ Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Palu District. The current mayor is Muhammet Septioğlu. Its population is 9,602. Inhabited since ancient times, Palu was the capital of the classical Armenian region of Balabitene and then, much later, of the Kurdish Emirate of Palu.- Type: Town with 18,700 residents
- Description: district of Elazığ, Turkey
- Also known as: “Palı”, “Palu (distritu)”, “Palu (ElazIg)”, “Palu District”, “Palu, Elazığ”, “Paluyah”, and “Txbetèria”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yeşilbayır and Yazıbaşı.
Yeşilbayır
Village
Yeşilbayır is a village in the Palu District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Yeşilbayır is situated 2½ km south of Palu.
Yazıbaşı
Village
Yazıbaşı is a village in the Kovancılar District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Yazıbaşı is situated 3½ km northwest of Palu.
Seydili
Village
Seydili is a village in the Palu District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Seydili is situated 3½ km west of Palu.
Palu
- Category: locality
- Location: Palu District, Elazığ, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.69349° or 38° 41′ 37″ north
Longitude
39.92888° or 39° 55′ 44″ east
Population
18,700
Elevation
889 metres (2,917 feet)
Open location code
8GCXMWVH+9H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Palu” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Palu, Ellazë”
- Albanian: “Palu”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ῥωμανοῦπολις”
- Arabic: “بالو”
- Armenian: “Բալահովիտ” (historical)
- Armenian: “Բալու”
- Armenian: “Հրոմանոպոլիս” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ռոմանոպոլիս” (historical)
- Asturian: “Palu”
- Azerbaijani: “Palu”
- Belarusian: “Палу”
- Catalan: “Palu”
- Cebuano: “Palu İlçesi”
- Central Kurdish: “پالۆ”
- Chechen: “Палу (Туркойчоь)”
- Chechen: “Палу”
- Chinese: “帕卢”
- Chinese: “帕盧”
- Czech: “Palu”
- Dimli (individual language): “Pali”
- Dutch: “Palu”
- French: “Palu”
- Gagauz: “Palu”
- Galician: “Palu”
- German: “Palu”
- Gilaki: “پالۊ (شأر)”
- Gilaki: “پالۊ”
- Greek: “Παλού”
- Hebrew: “פאלו”
- Irish: “Palu”
- Italian: “Palu”
- Japanese: “パル”
- Kurdish: “Palo”
- Kurdish: “پالۆ”
- Latin: “Romanopolis”
- Malay: “Daerah Palu, Turki”
- Malay: “Daerah Palu”
- Mazanderani: “پالو (شهر)”
- Mazanderani: “پالو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palu i Tyrkia”
- Norwegian: “Palu”
- Persian: “پالو (ترکیه)”
- Persian: “پالو”
- Polish: “Palu”
- Russian: “Палу”
- Serbian: “Палу”
- Slovak: “Palu”
- Spanish: “Palu”
- Swahili: “Palu (District)”
- Swahili: “Palu, Elazığ”
- Swedish: “Palu”
- Tatar: “Палу”
- Turkish: “Palu”
- Urdu: “پالو، الازیغ”
- Urdu: “پالو”
- Vietnamese: “Palu, Elazığ”
- Vietnamese: “Palu”
- Western Armenian: “Բալու”
- Western Mari: “Палу”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع پالو”
- “Palu”
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