Musabeyli District is a district of Kilis Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Musabeyli. The district is mostly populated by Turks but also Kurds, Romani people and Arabs. It had a total population of 12,390 in 2022. Its area is 346 km2.
Composition
There is one municipality in Musabeyli District: Musabeyli
There are 46 villages in Musabeyli District:
Ağcakent
Aşağıbademli
Aşağıkalecik
Balıklı
Belentepe
Bozkaya
Çayıraltı
Çınarköy
Dorucak
Dutluca
Fericek
Fırlaklı
Geçitboyu
Gökmusa
Gözlüce
Gündeğer
Hacılar
Hasancalı
Haydarlar
Hüseyinoğlu
Karadut
Karbeyaz
Kayapınar
Kaynaklı
Kızılkent
Koçcağız
Kolpınar
Körahmethüyüğü
Kozlubağ
Kurtaran
Kürtüncü
Madenyolu
Sabanlı
Şenlikçe
Tahtalıkaradut
Tokaçgemriği
Topallar
Üçpınar
Uğurtepe
Yastıca
Yedigöz
Yeşiloba
Yukarıbademli
Yukarıkalecik
Yuvabaşı
Zeytinbağı
History
Out of the 74 settlements he listed in the Ottoman nahiyah of Musabekli, 19th-century traveler Martin Hartmann noted 41 as Turkish (with a total of 554 households), 25 as Kurdish (247 households), 1 as Turkish and Abdal mixed (10 households), and 7 without any information on the population.