Palu District
Palu District is a district of Elazığ Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Palu. Its area is 730 km2, and its population is 18,648.- Type: district of Turkey with 23,100 residents
- Description: district of Elazığ, eastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Palu district” and “Palu Ilcesi”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Palu and Kovancılar.
Palu
Town
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.
Kovancılar
Town
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Kovancılar is a town in Elazığ Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Kovancılar District. Its population is 25,295. The mayor is Vahap Gök… Kovancılar is situated 6 km northwest of Palu District.
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 District.
Palu District
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Uzbek—“Palu District” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Palu (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Palu”
- Dutch: “Palu”
- Ido: “Distrikto Palu”
- Italian: “distretto di Palu”
- Italian: “Distretto di Palu”
- Turkish: “Palu (ilçe)”
- Turkish: “Palu İlçesi”
- Uzbek: “Palu tumani”
- “Palu ilçesi”
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