Uunan/turkish-village-names

Turkish Village Names

A dataset containing 11,104 unique Turkish village names.

The dataset was prepared for character-level language modeling and text generation experiments, especially for training miniature language models capable of generating synthetic Turkish village names.

Dataset Information

• Language: Turkish
• Entries: 11,104
• Duplicates: Removed
• Encoding: UTF-8
• Format: Plain text (.txt)
• One village name per line

Example

Akpınar
Karadere
Yeniköy
Boztepe
Çamlıca
Aşağıovacık
Yukarıkarakaya

Intended Use

This dataset is suitable for:

• Character-level language modeling
• Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) experiments
• Tokenizer training
• Tiny LLM training
• Educational NLP projects
• Turkish text generation

Source

The village names were extracted from the publicly available Turkish village list published by the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Interior.

The dataset was cleaned by:

• Removing empty entries
• Removing duplicate village names
• Normalizing text encoding

License

MIT

This project is based on the educational repository:

https://github.com/Uunan/tiny-village-llms