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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 18,700 residents
- Description: district of Elazığ, Turkey
- Also known as: “Palu, Elazığ” and “Paluyah”
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. Its population is 118. Yeşilbayır is situated 2½ km south of Palu.
Yazıbaşı
Village
Yazıbaşı is a village in the Kovancılar District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Previously, the village was known as Sakrat or Sekrat. The name of the village was changed between 1955 and 1960 to its current name of Yazıbaşı. Yazıbaşı is situated 3½ km northwest of Palu.
Seydili
Village
Seydili is a village in the Palu District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Its population is 279. Seydili is situated 3½ km west of Palu.
Palu
- Category: locality
- Location: Palu District, Elazığ Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
38.69349° or 38° 41′ 37″ northLongitude
39.92888° or 39° 55′ 44″ eastPopulation
18,700Elevation
889 metres (2,917 feet)Open location code
8GCXMWVH+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 244313619OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
302912Wikidata ID
Q1003910
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Palu” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Palu, Ellazë”
- Albanian: “Palu”
- Armenian: “Բալու”
- Asturian: “Palu (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Palu”
- Azerbaijani: “Palu”
- Belarusian: “Палу”
- Catalan: “Palu”
- Catalan: “Txbetèria”
- Cebuano: “Palu İlçesi”
- Central Kurdish: “پالۆ”
- Chechen: “Палу (Туркойчоь)”
- Chechen: “Палу”
- Chinese: “Palu”
- Chinese: “帕卢”
- Chinese: “帕盧”
- Czech: “Palu”
- Dimli (individual language): “Pali”
- Dimli (individual language): “Palı”
- Dutch: “Palu (ElazIg)”
- Dutch: “Palu”
- French: “Palu”
- Gagauz: “Palu”
- German: “Palu”
- Gilaki: “پالۊ (شأر)”
- Gilaki: “پالۊ”
- Greek: “Παλού”
- Hebrew: “פאלו”
- Irish: “Palu”
- Italian: “Palu”
- Japanese: “パル”
- Kurdish: “Palo”
- Kurdish: “پالۆ”
- Malay: “Daerah Palu, Turki”
- Malay: “Daerah Palu”
- Malay: “Palu District”
- 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, Elazığ”
- Turkish: “Palu”
- Urdu: “پالو، الازیغ”
- Urdu: “پالو”
- Vietnamese: “Palu, Elazığ”
- Vietnamese: “Palu”
- Western Armenian: “Բալու”
- Western Mari: “Палу”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع پالو”
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