Hacıbektaş
Sign in to saveHacıbektaş (historically Sulucakarahöyük) is a town and district of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Hacıbektaş District. Its population is 5,325 (2022). Located in Cappadocia, its elevation is . The town is named after Haji Bektash Veli, a 13th-century Sufi saint who founded the Bektashi Order.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Hacıbektaş
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Hacibektas, Nevsehir 02.jpg
- Turkey place.province
- Nevşehir
- Turkey place.district
- Hacıbektaş
- Turkey place.leader_party
- TİP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ali Kaim
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 1275
- Turkey place.population_total
- 5325
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0384
- Turkey place.blank1_name
- Climate
- Turkey place.blank1_info
- Csb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Nevşehir Province
- Population
- 11487
- Elevation
- 1250
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Official website
- www.hacibektas.gov.tr
- Image
- Hacibektas, Nevsehir 02.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hacıbektaş
- urban population
- 5417
- twinned administrative body
- Velbert
- rural population
- 15167
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hacıbektaş (historically Sulucakarahöyük) is a town and district of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Hacıbektaş District. Its population is 5,325 (2022). Located in Cappadocia, its elevation is . The town is named after Haji Bektash Veli, a 13th-century Sufi saint who founded the Bektashi Order.
==History== W. M. Ramsay identified the town as one of the possible locations of Doara, an ancient town and bishopric. Modern scholars place it elsewhere. From 1867 until 1922, Hacıbektaş was part of Angora vilayet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hacıbektaş” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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