Kemaliye

Kemaliye is both town and one of the nine regions of Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia area of Turkey. The town is known for its notable design, including numerous Ottoman-period houses. It is likewise prominent for its directing perspective of the stream Karasu Euphrates streaming south through a canyon over the Keban dam. In 1813, James Playfair's "A System of Geography" depicted Egin as " little town as an amphitheater, at the foot of a mountain, in a productive tract that scopes to the Euphrates".
The British traveler Francis Rawdon Chesney pursued the course of the Euphrates for an overview campaign somewhere in the range of 1835 and 1837, and specifies Egin as "a town of 2700 houses on the correct bank". In correlation, he include around 3000 houses Erzincan and 2923 families in Malatya. Chesney portrays Egin's circumstance in a profound valley where the "mountains ascend to around 4000 feet on each side of this solitary crevice, or, in other words that it is crossed by an extension between elevated limestone slopes appearing to overhang the town and so to speak to undermine its devastation".