| LC control no. | n 88099944 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Tunceli İli (Turkey) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Turkey--Tunceli İli |
| Variant(s) | Tunceli Vilâyeti (Turkey) Dersim Vilâyeti (Turkey) Tērsim Vilâyeti (Turkey) Darsim Vilâyeti (Turkey) |
| Special note | The official change in usage from vilâyet to il occurred ca. 1960. |
| Found in | Andrēasean, V. Hazariapatum, 1984-: v. 2 (name not given) Gaz. of Turkey, 1984 (Tunceli [brief] İli, ADM1, 39°05ʹN 39°30ʹE; ref. from Tunceli Vilâyeti) Gunter, M. Historical dictionary of the Kurds, 2004: (art. Dersim; former Kurdish name for the present-day Turkish province of Tunceli) Lippincott, 1961: (Tunceli, province in E central Turkey, bordered in N by Munzur and Mercan Mts., in SE by Peri R., in S by Murat R., in SW by Euphrates R.; formerly Dersim) EI2: (art. Kurds, Kurdistan: ...the mountainous region of Darsim ... [in] 1937, the Turks erased Darsim from the map and replaced this ill-fated name with that of Tunceli ["brass hand"]) Tērsim, 1900 |
| Geographic area code | a-tu--- |
| Invalid LCCN | n 88099945 |
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