Kangal
Sign in to saveKangal is a town in Sivas Province in Turkey. It is the seat of Kangal District. Its population is 8,948 (2022). The current mayor is Ahmet Kürşad Apaydın from the Great Unity Party (BBP).
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Kangal
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Kangal,Moschee1.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Kangal city center
- Turkey place.province
- Sivas
- Turkey place.district
- Kangal
- Turkey place.leader_party
- BBP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ahmet Kürşad Apaydın
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 1540
- Turkey place.population_total
- 8948
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 58900
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0346
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Sivas Province
- Population
- 21669
- Elevation
- 1540
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Official website
- www.kangal.gov.tr
- Image
- Kangal,Moschee1.jpg
- Licence plate code
- 58
Show 6 more facts
- name in kana
- カンガル
- different from
- Kangal Shepherd Dog
- postal code
- 58900–58999
- urban population
- 9119
- rural population
- 11018
- Commons category
- Kangal
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Climate
- Notable people
- See also
- References
Kangal is a town in Sivas Province in Turkey. It is the seat of Kangal District. Its population is 8,948 (2022). The current mayor is Ahmet Kürşad Apaydın from the Great Unity Party (BBP).
==History== Kangal was known in the time of emperor Diocletian under the name Euspena and later during the Byzantine Empire as Spynin. The Byzantine general Eustathios Argyros was buried here in the monastery of St Elizabeth which had been constructed by his grandfather Leon. The town, known in Ottoman times as Qangal, had an Armenian church until the first massacres against the Armenians in 1895.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kangal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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