Muş (; ; ) is a city in eastern Turkey and one of the principal cities of the predominantly Kurdish-inhabited region of eastern Anatolia. It is the seat of Muş Province and Muş District. Its population is 120,699 (2022). The city is majority Kurdish.
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Muş is a city in eastern Turkey with a population of about 120,700 people, located in a predominantly Kurdish region of Anatolia where the majority of residents are Kurdish. It serves as the administrative center for both Muş Province and Muş District.
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- Locality
- Muş Merkez
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- Muş
- Country
- Türkiye
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- 82,536
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Muş (; ; ) is a city in eastern Turkey and one of the principal cities of the predominantly Kurdish-inhabited region of eastern Anatolia. It is the seat of Muş Province and Muş District. Its population is 120,699 (2022). The city is majority Kurdish.
== Etymology == Various explanations of the origin of Muş's name exist. Its name is sometimes associated with the Armenian word , meaning fog, explained by the fact that the town and the surrounding plain are frequently covered in fog in the mornings. The 17th-century explorer Evliya Çelebi relates a myth where a giant mouse created by Nemrud (Nimrod) destroys the city and its inhabitants, after which the city was named Muş ( means "mouse" in Persian). Others have proposed a connection with the names of different ancient Anatolian peoples, the Mushki or the Mysians, or the toponyms Mushki and Mushuni mentioned in Assyrian and Hittite sources, respectively.