Nazımiye
Sign in to saveNazımiye (), formerly known as Kızıl Kilise (, ), is a municipality and seat of the Nazımiye District of Tunceli Province in Turkey. It had a population of 1,262 in 2021. It is populated by Kurds of the Arel and Lolan tribes. The main religion is Kurdish Alevism and main language is Zazaki. At the same time, crypto-Armenians who survived the Armenian genocide also live in Nazımiye.
Key facts
- Turkey place.name
- Nazımiye
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Nazımiye town in 2006 9444.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- A view from Nazımiye, 2006
- Turkey place.image_map
- Tunceli location Nazımiye.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Location of Nazımiye on Tunceli
- Turkey place.district
- Tunceli
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ali Emrah Tekin
- Turkey place.population_total
- 1,262
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 62950
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Nazımiye (), formerly known as Kızıl Kilise (, ), is a municipality and seat of the Nazımiye District of Tunceli Province in Turkey. It had a population of 1,262 in 2021. It is populated by Kurds of the Arel and Lolan tribes. The main religion is Kurdish Alevism and main language is Zazaki. At the same time, crypto-Armenians who survived the Armenian genocide also live in Nazımiye.
== History == Its old name is Kızıl Kilise (). The settlement, which came under Ottoman rule after the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514, was first connected to the Çemişgezek Sanjak and then to the Mazgirt Sanjak.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nazımiye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.