Şiran

Şiran lies in the high country of the Kelkit basin, between the mountains of the Black Sea region and the valleys leading towards Erzincan. Under Ottoman rule it formed a district of Kara Hisar-ı Şarkî until the end of the sixteenth century. Its villages occupied a landscape of plateaus and mountain pastures, connected by routes through the valleys to neighbouring Kelkit and the upper Euphrates country.