Musabeyli District
# Musabeyli District

Musabeyli District is a district of Kilis Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Musabeyli. The district is mostly populated by Turks but also Kurds, Romani people and Arabs. It had a total population of 12,390 in 2022. Its area is 346 $km^2.$

## Composition

There is one municipality in Musabeyli District:

* Musabeyli

There are 46 villages in Musabeyli District:

* Ağcakent
* Aşağıbademli
* Aşağıkalecik
* Balıklı
* Belentepe
* Bozkaya
* Çayıraltı
* Çınarköy
* Dorucak
* Dutluca
* Fericek
* Fırlaklı
* Geçitboyu
* Gökmusa
* Gözlüce
* Gündeğer
* Hacılar
* Hasancalı
* Haydarlar
* Hüseyinoğlu
* Karadut
* Karbeyaz
* Kayapınar
* Kaynaklı
* Kızılkent
* Koçcağız
* Kolpınar
* Körahmethüyüğü
* Kozlubağ
* Kurtaran
* Kürtüncü
* Madenyolu
* Sabanlı
* Şenlikçe
* Tahtalıkaradut
* Tokaçgemriği
* Topallar
* Üçpınar
* Uğurtepe
* Yastıca
* Yedigöz
* Yeşiloba
* Yukarıbademli
* Yukarıkalecik
* Yuvabaşı
* Zeytinbağı

## History

Out of the 74 settlements he listed in the Ottoman nahiyah of Musabekli, 19th-century traveler Martin Hartmann noted 41 as Turkish (with a total of 554 households), 25 as Kurdish (247 households), 1 as Turkish and Abdal mixed (10 households), and 7 without any information on the population.

