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Çelikhan

town of Adıyaman, Turkey

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ272782 ↗
Source-derived summary

Çelikhan (Kurdish: Komaşir) is a town of Adıyaman Province, Turkey. It is the seat of Çelikhan District. The town is mostly populated by Kurds of the Reşwan tribe and had a population of 8,473 in 2021.

Editorial summary

“Çelikhan” enters the record as town of Adıyaman, Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Çelikhan, town and Adıyaman can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Çelikhan, town and Adıyaman.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Çelikhan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Çelikhan, town and Adıyaman provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q272782. Authority coordinates are 38.035, 38.246. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Çelikhan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Çelikhan primary sources, Çelikhan archive and Çelikhan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Çelikhan”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Çelikhan” 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.