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… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/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
YukarıkarakayaIntended 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
