Musabeyli District Explained

Type:district
Coordinates:36.8864°N 36.9183°W
Province:Kilis
Seat:Musabeyli
Area Total Km2:346
Population Total:12390
Population As Of:2022

Musabeyli District is a district of Kilis Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Musabeyli.[1] The district is mostly populated by Turks but also Kurds, Romani people and Arabs.[2] It had a total population of 12,390 in 2022.[3] Its area is 346 km2.[4]

Composition

There is one municipality in Musabeyli District:[1]

There are 46 villages in Musabeyli District:[5]

History

Out of the 74 settlements he listed in the Ottoman nahiyah of Musabekli, 19th-century traveler Martin Hartmann noted 41 as Turkish (with a total of 554 households), 25 as Kurdish (247 households), 1 as Turkish and Abdal mixed (10 households), and 7 without any information on the population.[6]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx İlçe Belediyesi
  2. Web site: Erberdi . Ebru . Farklı kültürden insanların yaşadığı ilçe: Musabeyli . 21 November 2022 . Sözcü.
  3. Web site: Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) - Results of 31 December 2022 . 12 March 2023 . . XLS.
  4. Web site: İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri. General Directorate of Mapping. 1 March 2023.
  5. https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Köy
  6. Book: Hartmann . Martin . Das liwa Haleb (Aleppo) und ein Teil des Liwa Dschebel Bereket . 1894 . W. Pormetter . Berlin . 100–101 . 30 November 2022.