Balibey, Erzincan
village in central district, Erzincan, eastern Turkey

Balibey or Balıbeyi is a village in the Erzincan District of Erzincan Province in Turkey. The village had a population of 182 in 2021.
The hamlet of Sütçüler is attached to the village.
“Balibey, Erzincan” enters the record as village in central district, Erzincan, eastern Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Balibey, Erzincan and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Balibey, Erzincan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Balibey, Erzincan and village provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10737699. Authority coordinates are 39.695, 39.579. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
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Three-step research path
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Balibey, Erzincan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.