Dulkadiroğlu is a planned district and second level municipality in Kahramanmaraş Province,

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. According to Law act no 6360, all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750000, will be a metropolitan municipality and the

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within the metropolitan municipalities will be second level municipalities. The law also creates new districts within the provinces in addition to present districts.Official gazette
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Kahramanmaraş Marash (Armenian: Մարաշ), officially Kahramanmaraş () and historically Germanicea (Greek: Γερμανίκεια), is a city in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey and the administrative center of Kahramanmaraş Province. Before 1973, Kahrama ...

central district will be split into two. A part will be named ''Dulkadiroğlu'' and the name Kahramanmaraş will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality. ("Dulkadiroğlu means "son of Dulkadir" and Dulkadir was a

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tribe leader who had founded a beylik (principality) in and around Kahramanmaraş in the 15th century.)

Rural area

There will be one town and 57 villages in the rural area of Dulkadiroğlu district. Now their official status became "neighborhood of Dulkadiroğlu".

References

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