Harput

Harput

Elâzığ ( or ; Armenian: Խարբերդ; Kh'arberd/Harput, Kurdish: Elezîz, Syriac: ܟܪܦܘܬ; Kharpūṭ/Ḥarfūṭ) is a city in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey and the administrative center of Elâzığ Province. In the Ottoman times it was known as Mamüret-ül Aziz. It has a population of 331,479 according to the 2010 census, and the plain on which the city extends has an altitude of 1067 metres.

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