İmranlı is a town and a district of Sivas Province

Sivas Province

The Sivas Province is a province of Turkey. It located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolian region of Turkey; it is the second largest province in Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat to the west, Kayseri to the southwest, Kahramanmaraş to the south, Malatya to the southeast, Erzincan...

 of Turkey

Turkey

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. Population is 6,600 (2005 census

Census

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). The mayor is Dursun Yurttaş (AKP

Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

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). The town is located at 108 km to Sivas. It became a district on January 1, 1948, while it was a part of the Zara

Zara (Turkish district)

Zara is a town and a district of Sivas Province of Turkey. The mayor is Hüsamettin Gürsoy . The town is 70 km. away from Sivas....

district. Because of the harsh weather, it is hard to gain agricultural products from the land. Therefore, the main economic activity of the locals is cattle dealing. Many people left İmranlı and immigrated to the big cities of Turkey back in 1970s, a situation that was caused by the lack of social capacity and investment.