Doğanşehir (Kurdish: Wêranşar/Mûhacîr,[2] formerly known as Muhacir and Viranşehir[3]) is a municipality and district of Malatya Province, Turkey.[4] Its area is 1,364 km2,[5] and its population is 37,697 (2022).[1] The mayor is Memet Bayram (CHP). Historically the city was known as Sozopetra (Greek: Σωζόπετρα).
The 2nd-century geographer Claudius Ptolemy records the city as Zizoatra (Greek: Ζιζόατρα),[10] part of the province (strategia) of Lauiansene in Cappadocia.[11] In Byzantine times, it was known as Sozopetra (Σωζόπετρα) and Zapetra (Ζάπετρα, Zibatra in Arabic).[11]
Economy
Significant improvements in the fruit industry has made agriculture the District's most important source of income. It includes apricots and an increase in the production of apples. Livestock is usually farmed in the village. Both the district and the villages of central and traditional values, importance is given to local custom. Tourism, mountaineering and monitoring local wildlife are also new attractions.
Transport
Doğanşehir has a railway station on the line from Malatya to Adana. State road D.850 passes through the district.