İliç


İliç is a town and district of Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It covers an area of 1,397 km² and the elevation is 1,060 m. The district has a population of 6,349 of which 2,503 live in the town of İliç. The mayor is Muhlis Doğan. Muhammad Ali of Egypt's ancestors came from this city before they migrated to Kavala.
The town is just upstream of the Bağıştaş 1 Dam.

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