Genç

Genç was the name of a district on the upper Murat, a branch of the Euphrates, amid the mountains of eastern Anatolia. After the Ottoman victory at Chaldiran in 1514, the historic settlement of Genç became the centre of a sancak. The river valley connected its fortified places and villages with the wider lands of Diyarbakır, while steep uplands enclosed the routes leading north.