[8] According to the 1881 Ottoman census, there were 6 neighborhoods of Pertag town - 1154 total males (966 Muslim, 188 Armenian Apostolic) in 520 households.

[6] The mosques were later dismantled and moved from the site of the old town to protect them from the rising water shore of the Lake Keban.

The village of Sağman has a ruined citadel with a 16th-century mosque, tomb and tekke built by the Kurdish sanjak bey Keykusrav.

[6] In August 2022, archaeologists led by Kenan Öncel announced that they had discovered a child skeleton in an oval-shaped pit in Tozkoparan Mound.

In order to determine the skeleton's diet and age-at-death, researchers are planning to trace the diseases left in the bones.