[9] It has been presumed that the district had been inhabited since 7000-5000 BC[10][9] due to the estimations made for the nearby archaeological sites such as Arslantepe[10] and Cafer Höyük.

[9] One of the Hittites remains within the district is a pair of lion statues residing around Arslantaş region, the west of Darende.

[12] In chronological order, the governance to date was controlled by Hittites, Mitanni, Assyrians, Achaemenids, Romans, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Seljuks, Danishmends, Rum Seljuks, Ilkhanids, Eretnids, Dulkadirids, Mamluks and Ottomans.

[19] There are 67 neighbourhoods in Darende District:[20] Evliya Çelebi claimed that the town's population was wholly made up of Armenians and Turkomans at the time of his travels.

[23] The vocabulary of the cant fetched words from various languages such as Arabic, Persian and Russian, and merged into the Turkish grammar in order to exclude people outside of the circle during communications when necessary.