Kovancılar
Kovancilar is a town in the province of Elazığ. Within the framework of the exchange agreement signed between Romania and Turkey in 1934, 300 Turkish families from Romania were transferred to the province of Elazığ. Due to the winter season, the immigrants, who were temporarily resettled in the surrounding villages, were then settled in the present district center. In the spring of 1935, a new village of 300 households was populated. This new settlement was named after Kovancılar, the village where the immigrants resided in Romania. The zoning plan of Kovancılar, which was established on a completely empty land in 1935, was prepared in the best way with the possibilities of that time and constituted an exemplary settlement in the province of Elazığ.
