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| Coordinates:39°22′N38°07′E / 39.367°N 38.117°E /39.367; 38.117 | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Sivas |
| District | Divriği |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Cihan Deniz Akbaş (CHP) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 10,800 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Postal code | 58300 |
| Area code | 0346 |
| Website | www |
Divriği (Kurdish:Dîvrîgî;Armenian:Տեւրիկ,romanized: Tevrik) is a town of eleven thousand people inSivas Province,Turkey, and is the district capital ofDivriği District.[2][1] The town lies on a gentle slope on the south bank of theÇaltısuyu river, a tributary of theKarasu river which flows into theEuphrates.
The 13th centuryGreat Mosque and Hospital of Divriği are onUNESCO'sWorld Heritage List by virtue of the exquisite carvings and architecture of both buildings.[3] There arelarge iron mines nearby and the town is on theTurkish rail network.
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TheHittites may have mined and made use of theiron ore in the area.[4]
In the 9th century the town was known as Abrik and controlled by thePaulicians with the support of Arabs and theemir ofMalatya.[5] It had been founded ca. 850 byKarbeas, the leader of the Paulicians, aheretical Armenian sect that adhered to adualistic cosmology. The Paulicians fortified it and used it as refuge and the capital oftheir state during the ninth century.[6]
Later called Tephrike (Greek:Τεφρική) it was recaptured by the Byzantine Empire during the reign of EmperorBasil I and was temporarily named Leontokome (after EmperorLeo VI) and made into athema.[6] In the early eleventh century, the town was part of the territory given to the Armenian kingSeneqerim-Hovhannes of Vaspurakan in exchange for his lands inVaspurakan.[6]
After thebattle of Manzikert (present dayMalazgirt), Divriği came under the control of theSultanate of Rûm.[7] TheMengüjeks built theGreat Mosque and hospital.[5] A medieval castle, with remains mostly from the thirteenth century, is situated on top of a steep hill overlooking the town.
The railway arrived in 1937 and exportsore from iron mines which still supports the economy of the town andnational economy.[5][8] The Great Mosque and hospital is the main draw, and there are some other places which attracttourists.[9]
Divriği has a dry-summercontinental climate (Köppen:Dsa), bordering asemi-arid climate (Köppen:BSk),[10] with hot, dry summers, and cold, snowy winters.[11]
| Climate data for Divriği (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 2.6 (36.7) | 4.6 (40.3) | 11.0 (51.8) | 17.3 (63.1) | 22.5 (72.5) | 28.1 (82.6) | 32.7 (90.9) | 33.2 (91.8) | 28.2 (82.8) | 21.0 (69.8) | 11.9 (53.4) | 4.9 (40.8) | 18.2 (64.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.6 (29.1) | −0.1 (31.8) | 5.5 (41.9) | 11.1 (52.0) | 15.6 (60.1) | 20.4 (68.7) | 24.5 (76.1) | 24.8 (76.6) | 20.1 (68.2) | 13.9 (57.0) | 6.2 (43.2) | 0.7 (33.3) | 11.8 (53.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.0 (23.0) | −4.0 (24.8) | 0.7 (33.3) | 5.4 (41.7) | 9.3 (48.7) | 13.1 (55.6) | 16.5 (61.7) | 16.8 (62.2) | 12.5 (54.5) | 7.8 (46.0) | 1.5 (34.7) | −2.5 (27.5) | 6.1 (43.0) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 33.74 (1.33) | 34.26 (1.35) | 43.84 (1.73) | 69.0 (2.72) | 51.4 (2.02) | 22.64 (0.89) | 8.7 (0.34) | 4.86 (0.19) | 13.95 (0.55) | 34.87 (1.37) | 29.55 (1.16) | 33.02 (1.30) | 379.83 (14.95) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 6.1 | 6.4 | 7.4 | 9.1 | 9.2 | 4.5 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 5.6 | 5.0 | 7.1 | 66.4 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 73.0 | 69.7 | 61.1 | 56.3 | 56.9 | 49.6 | 42.3 | 41.7 | 43.0 | 54.8 | 65.0 | 73.3 | 57.2 |
| Source:NOAA[12] | |||||||||||||
About 103 of the 109 villages are populated byAlevis. The majority of theAlevi population isTurkish, with a significantKurdish Alevi minority.[13]Evliya Çelebi included that Divriği was made up of Greeks and Turkomans as well as Armenians and Kurds in hisseyahatname.[14]
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