Place:Malatya, Turkey

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NameMalatya
Alt namesMalatyasource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) VII, 726
Malatya Ilisource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Malatya Vilayetisource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeProvince
Coordinates38.5°N 38.0°E
Located inTurkey
See alsoDoğu Anadolu,removed name of Region
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Akcadag
Arapk̇ir
Arguvan
Asagi Mestikan
Ayvalıi
Balaban
Colakli
Darende
Doğanşehıir
Hasançeleḃi
Hek̇imhan
Keferḋiz
Korsuleymanli
Kursunlu
Levent
Malatya ( 1838 - )
Mutmur
Puturge
Surgu
Tepehan
Yazihan
Yesilyurt
Yoncali
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Malatya Province is a province of Turkey. It is part of a larger mountainous area. The capital of the province is Malatya (in Hittite: Milid or Maldi, meaning "city of honey"). The area of Malatya province is 12,313 km². Malatya Province had a population of 853,658 according to the results of 2000 census, whereas in 2010 it had a population of 740,643. The provincial center, the city of Malatya, has a population of 426,381 (2010).

According to the Encyclopedia of Islam, the province is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan.

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