Nazımiye (Kurdish: Qisle)[3] is a district of Tunceli, Turkey. The town has a population of 1,636. It was also known as Kızıl Kilise.

Nazımiye
A view from Sarıyayla (Civarik/Cıvarık) village of Nazımiye.
Nazımiye
Coordinates: 39°10′52″N 39°49′44″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Tunceli
Government
• Mayor	Cafer Kırmızıçiçek (CHP)
• Kaymakam	Rasim Belge
Area [1]
• District	549.80 km2 (212.28 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Urban	1,950
• District	3,378
• District density	6.1/km2 (16/sq mi)
Post code	62950
Climate	Dsa
Website	www.nazimiye.bel.tr

History

Its old name is Kızıl Kilise (Ottoman Turkish: قزيل کليسا).[4] The settlement, which came under Ottoman rule after the Battle of Battle of Chaldiran in 1514, was first connected to the Çemişgezek Sanjak and then to the Mazgirt Sanjak.[5] In the census of the period of 1521-1523, the settlement was in the status of a village with the name Kızıl Kilise, and there were 23 households in the settlement where the members of the Kurdish Dersimlü tribe lived at that time.[6] The settlement, which was connected to Erzincan in 1847, rose to the status of an accident in 1876.[5] In the records of 1880, the settlement was seen as one of the districts of Mazgirt Sanjak of Dersim Vilayet, but when the Dersim Province was abolished in 1892, this time it continued to be a district under the Dersim Sanjak.[7] In 1894, there were 228 people living in the settlement, which had 24 households, of which 6 were Armenians and the rest were Muslims. In 1911, the name of the settlement to be changed in honor of Mehmet Nazım Efendi, the grandson of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V, who was born in 1910, was approved in the same year, and it was renamed Nazımiye.[5] Nazımiye, which was affiliated to Elazığ during World War I, began to be administered from Tunceli in 1947.

Religion and language

Most of the population is Alevi and speaks Zaza.[8] However, tribes in the region, such as the Hormakan, Kumsuran and Maskan tribe, speak the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish.[9]

Notable people

• Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu - is a Turkish economist, retired civil servant and social democratic politician. He is leader of the Republican People's Party.
• Kamer Genç - was a Turkish politician of Zaza[10][11] origin, elected a member of parliament for the Republican People's Party.
• Alican Önlü - Turkish politician of Kurdish[12] origin. He was nominated as a Tunceli Deputy by the Peoples' Democratic Party and was elected as a Member of Parliament with a vote rate exceeding 61%.
• Edlibe Şahin - Turkish politician of Kurdish origin, was the mayor of the municipality of Tunceli.
• Hüseyin Aygün - is a Turkish lawyer and politician of Zaza origin.
• Ali Haydar Kaytan (or Fuad[13]) - is a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Kaytan was born in 1952 into a Kurdish family whose members were resettled in the aftermath of the Dersim rebellion.[14][15]

Weather

The summer months are generally hot and dry. There is heavy snow in winter. The average rainfall is 500–600 mm per year.

References

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