Enginalan, Iğdır

Enginalan
Enginalan
Village
	Enginalan Location in Turkey
	Coordinates: 39°57′56″N 44°1′56″E / 39.96556°N 44.03222°E
Country	Turkey
Province	Iğdır
District	Iğdır
Elevation	861 m (2,825 ft)
Population (2022)	2,482
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code	76000
Area code	0476

Enginalan (Kurdish: Pilûr, Armenian: Բլուր, romanized: Blur), is a village in the Iğdır District of Iğdır Province, Turkey.^[2] Its population is 2,482 (2022).^[3] The village is populated by Azerbaijanis and Kurds.^[4]

History[edit]

From the records of 1901 and 1928 we know the village was once called Blur in Armenian, which means mound.^[5]

Enginalan was an Armenian inhabited settlement prior to the Armenian-Turkish war in 1920, with a population of 2,244 in 1908^[6]^{[page needed]}

^ "Enginalan, Turkey Page". Fallingrain.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
^ Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
^ Peter Alfred, Andrews; Benninghaus, Rüdiger, eds. (1989). Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey. p. 295.
^ "բլուր — Վիքիբառարան". hy.wiktionary.org (in Armenian). Retrieved 2021-09-07.
^ The Caucasian calendar .... for 1909.

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