Maden () is a town (belde) in Elazığ Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Maden District.İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 December 2022. Its population is 3,662 (2021). The mayor is Orhan Yavuz Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
History According to the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, there were 10,559 Armenians in the kaza of Maden on the eve of the First World War, maintaining ten churches, two monasteries and seven schools. They were all massacred in July 1915, with many of them thrown into a crevasse in Çüngüş called Yudan Dere ().
There were also some 500 Greek families living in Maden on the eve of the war.
Demographics + Mother tongue, Maden District, 1927 Turkish census1927 NÜFUS SAYIMI SONUÇLARINA GÖRE ELAZIĞ NÜFUSU Turkish Arabic Kurdish Circassian Armenian Unknown or other language 2,452 1 7,544 – 5 17
+ Religion, Maden District, 1927 Turkish census Muslim Christian Jewish Unknown or other religion 9,999 19 – 1
Notable people Nûredin Zaza, politician Fatih Kısaparmak, musician
References
Further reading D. E. Theodore. The Sacrificials: Part of an Autobiography Depicting the Life of Minorities in a War Torn Country. Boston: Branden Press, 1970.