Keçe Bitaman
# Keçe Bitaman

Keçe Bitaman (Tatar: Кече Битаман, romanized: Keçe Bitaman) is a rural locality (a derevnya) in Biektaw District, Tatarstan. The population was 204 as of 2010.

## Geography

Keçe Bitaman is located 36 km northwest of Biektaw, district's administrative centre, and 64 km north of Qazan, republic's capital, by road.

## History

The earliest known record of the settlement dates from the 18th century.

From 18th to the first half of the 19th centuries village's residents belonged to the social estate of state peasants.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, village had a mosque and a small shop.

Before the creation of the Tatar ASSR in 1920 was a part of Çar Uyezd of Qazan Governorate. Since 1920 was a part of Arça Canton; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Döbyaz (1930–1963), Yäşel Üzän (1963–1965) and Biektaw districts.

