Yelkesen
Yelkesen is a village in Suşehri İlçesi, Sivas Province and has about 179 residents and an elevation of 1,040 metres. Yelkesen is situated nearby to the neighborhood Topuzoğlu, as well as near the village Yaygınsöğüt.- Type: Village with 179 residents
- Description: village in Suşehri, Sivas, central Turkey
- Also known as: “Zidana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kılıçkaya Dam.
Kılıçkaya Dam
Power station
Photo: Zcebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kılıçkaya Dam is a dam located 25 km north of town of Suşehri 158 km northeast of Sivas city in center east of Turkey and located on the Kelkit, a tributary of the Yeşilırmak River which flows down along a large fault in the north east Anatolia than runs into the Black Sea. Kılıçkaya Dam is situated 3 km east of Yelkesen.
Yelkesen
- Categories: village of Turkey and locality
- Location: Suşehri İlçesi, Sivas Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.23608° or 40° 14′ 10″ northLongitude
38.15544° or 38° 9′ 20″ eastPopulation
179Elevation
1,040 metres (3,412 feet)Open location code
8GGW65P4+C5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1215006183OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
737779Wikidata ID
Q6529466
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Yelkesen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Yelkesen”
- Catalan: “Yelkesen”
- Cebuano: “Yelkesen”
- Chechen: “Йелкесен”
- Czech: “Yelkesen”
- Danish: “Yelkesen”
- Dutch: “Yelkesen”
- Finnish: “Yelkesen”
- German: “Yelkesen”
- Indonesian: “Yelkesen”
- Italian: “Yelkesen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yelkesen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yelkesen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yelkesen”
- Polish: “Yelkesen”
- Portuguese: “Yelkesen”
- Romanian: “Yelkesen”
- Slovak: “Yelkesen”
- Slovenian: “Yelkesen”
- Spanish: “Yelkesen”
- Swedish: “Yelkesen”
- Tagalog: “Yelkesen”
- Tatar: “Елкесен”
- Turkish: “Yelkesen, Suşehri”
- Turkish: “Yelkesen”
- Uzbek: “Yelkesen”
- Vietnamese: “Yelkesen, Suşehri”
- Vietnamese: “Yelkesen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yelkesen”
- “Yelkesen”
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