Gürün

Gürün is a town and a district of Sivas Province of Turkey. The mayor is Nami Çiftçi (MHP).

Gürün
Gürün
Coordinates: 38°43′21″N 37°16′39″E
CountryTurkey
ProvinceSivas
Government
 • MayorNami Çiftçi (MHP)
 • KaymakamÖmer Kalaylı
Area
[1]
 • District2,717.30 km2 (1,049.16 sq mi)
Elevation
1,334 m (4,377 ft)
Population
 (2012)[2]
 • Urban
9,824
 • District
20,222
 • District density7.4/km2 (19/sq mi)
Post code
58800
Websitewww.gurun.bel.tr

The current name Gürün is most probably the corruption of the ancient name Tegarama. It was a city in Anatolia during the Bronze Age.

The city was inhabited during the Old Assyrian Kingdom and Hittite Empire. Ancient rock caves dating to 2000 BC are located in the district. The caves would have been in use, possibly as a kind of apartment complex, during the Hittite period. The caves were also "used as a cold storage area, woodshed and animal feed storage area by local people until a short time ago" and are now open to visitors.[3] Gürün Mayor Nami Çiftçi told Daily Sabah that "We don't have a precise date determined by expert engineers or by people who are well-versed in this field, so I invite our historians to Gürün. Come, bring your knowledge and your tools, study these caves so that we can have the data regarding their age, and we can announce it to the world".[4]

References
  1. "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
  2. "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
  3. Datta, Debasish (2021-03-26), "Optical Local/Metropolitan and Storage-Area Networks", Optical Networks, Oxford University Press, pp. 135–160, retrieved 2021-09-21
  4. SABAH, DAILY (2020-12-09). "4,000-year-old apartment complex in central Turkey awaits researchers, tourists". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2021-09-21.

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