2-701: Erkmen is a town ( belde ) and municipality in the Afyonkarahisar District , Afyonkarahisar Province , Turkey . Its population is 7,293 (2021). This geographical article about a location in Afyonkarahisar Province , Turkey is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Belde Belde (literally "town", also known as kasaba ) means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish . All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but
4-406: The villages are usually too small to have municipalities. The population in some villages may exceed 2000 and in such villages a small municipality may be established depending on residents' choice. Such villages are called belde . Up to 2014 the number of belde municipalities was about 1400. On 30 March 2014 by the act no. 6360 all villages (those with and without municipality) were included in
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