Balaban
Balaban is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Yazıhan, Malatya Province in Turkey. It is populated by Turks and had a population of 768 in 2025.- Type: Village with 665 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Yazıhan, Malatya, east-central Turkey
- Also known as: “Balaban, Yazıhan”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ambarcık and Sinanlı.
Ambarcık
Village
Ambarcık is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Yazıhan, Malatya Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and Turks and had a population of 279 in 2025.
Sinanlı
Village
Sinanlı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Yazıhan, Malatya Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds of the Herdî tribe and had a population of 429 in 2025. Sinanlı is situated 3½ km south of Balaban.
Eğribük
Village
Eğribük is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Yazıhan, Malatya Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and Turks and had a population of 177 in 2025. Eğribük is situated 3½ km east of Balaban.
Balaban
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Yazıhan İlçesi, Malatya Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.56783° or 38° 34′ 4″ north
Longitude
38.29514° or 38° 17′ 43″ east
Population
665
Elevation
717 metres (2,352 feet)
Open location code
8GCWH79W+43
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yoruba—“Balaban” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բալաբան”
- Basque: “Balaban”
- Catalan: “Balaban”
- Cebuano: “Balaban”
- Chechen: “Балабан”
- Czech: “Balaban”
- Danish: “Balaban”
- Dutch: “Balaban”
- Finnish: “Balaban”
- Galician: “Balaban”
- German: “Balaban”
- Irish: “Balaban”
- Italian: “Balaban”
- Japanese: “バラバン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balaban”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balaban”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Balaban”
- Polish: “Balaban”
- Portuguese: “Balaban”
- Romanian: “Balaban”
- Scots: “Balaban”
- Slovak: “Balaban”
- Slovenian: “Balaban”
- Spanish: “Balaban”
- Swedish: “Balaban”
- Tagalog: “Balaban”
- Tatar: “Балабан (Язиһан)”
- Tatar: “Балабан”
- Turkish: “Balaban, Yazıhan”
- Turkish: “Balaban”
- Vietnamese: “Balaban, Yazıhan”
- Vietnamese: “Balaban”
- Waray (Philippines): “Balaban”
- Yoruba: “Balaban”
- “Balaban”
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