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Oltu

district and town in Erzurum Province, Turkey
Place Town Q915429

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
town

Location

Country
Turkey[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.546°, 41.996°[5]
Located in or next to body of water
Oltu river[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Erzurum Province[2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+1275[15]
Population
+30966[6]
More facts +5
Capital of
Diauehi, Kingdom of the Iberians[12][13]
Described by source
New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12[7][8][9][10][11]
Name in kana
オルトゥ[14]
Rural population
27k (10k–28k, n=12)
Urban population
30k (6.0k–31k, n=21)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]
🏷️ Also known as
en Oltu ar ولتة de Olty fa اولتو ja オルトゥ ru Олту ru Ольты zh 奧爾圖 zh-hans 奥尔图
🔖 Identifiers · 11
VIAF cluster ID
236448063
GND ID
4241798-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Oltu sülün kaya -köroğlu ormanları - panoramio.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0bjcmz
GNS Unique Feature ID
11848145
GeoNames ID
741160, 8631381
INaturalist place ID
106385
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
3728
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1832682
Topic's main category
Category:Oltu
Who's on First ID
890463473

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🔗 Connections
People born here 3
Efkan Âlâ, Fatih Sonkaya, Muhammed Emin Sarıkaya
Capital of 2
Kingdom of the Iberians, Diauehi
Located in time zone 2
UTC+03:00, Turkey Time
← Capital 2
Kingdom of the Iberians, Oltu Okrug
Country 1
Turkey
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Instance of 1
town
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Erzurum Province
Located in this place 1
Battle of Oltu
Topic's main category 1
Category:Oltu
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Oltu
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Erzurum Province
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Summary

Oltu is a town[1].

Related Entities

Turkey

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Kareyac · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +2
    Located in or next to body of water → Oltu river
    "Created claim: Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12"
  2. 14w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #45396: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 16w ago · Dirac · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → 30,966
    Capital of → Diauehi, Kingdom of the Iberians
    Elevation above sea level → 1,275 metre
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Erzurum Province
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Image: Oltu sülün kaya -köroğlu ormanları - panoramio.jpg, batch #261402"
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