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Gürün
CountryTurkey
ProvinceSivas
Government
 • MayorNami Çiftçi (MHP)
 • KaymakamÖmer Kalaylı
Area
 • District2,717.30 km2 (1,049.16 sq mi)
Elevation
1,334 m (4,377 ft)
Population
 • Urban
Template:Turkey district populations
 • District
Template:Turkey district populations
Post code
58800
Websitewww.gurun.bel.tr

Gürün (TAO: Կիւրին, RAO: Կյուրին) is a town and a district of Sivas Province of Turkey. The mayor is Nami Çiftçi (MHP).

History

During the Armenian Genocide, a sizable portion of the city's Armenian population was deported and killed. According to the memoir Goodbye, Antoura, during the pre-genocide years the Armenian population had achieved a level of stability in Gurun, with at least one Armenian family owning large swathes of land and orchards. In 1915, the Ottoman government appropriated these lands, and the Armenian population was deported southward and westward into the Syrian desert, eventually reaching the cities of Homs and Hama.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. ^ Goodbye, Antoura, Stanford University Press, 2015

Further reading

  • Panian, Karnig. Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide. Translated by Simon Beugekian. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.