Ergene is a planned district and second level municipality in

Tekirdağ Province Tekirdağ Province ( tr, Tekirdağ ili , ) is a province of Turkey. It is located in the East Thrace region of the country, also known as European Turkey, one of only three provinces entirely within continental Europe. Tekirdağ Province is border ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. According to Law act no 6360, all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750 000, will be a metropolitan municipality and the

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

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
/ref> These changes will be effective by the local elections in 2014. Thus after 2014 a part of the

Çorlu Çorlu () is a northwestern Turkish city in inland Eastern Thrace that falls under the administration of the Province of Tekirdağ. It is a rapidly growing industrial centre built on flatland located on the motorway Otoyol 3 and off the highwa ...

district will be issued from Çorlu and will be declared a district named Ergene. (

Ergene Ergene ( tr, Ergene Nehri; grc, Εργίνης, ''Eryinis'') is a major left tributary of the Maritsa (Meriç) river, flowing entirely in the East Thrace region of Turkey. The river rises from the southern part of Strandzha mountain, not far from ...

refers to a river with the same name which is a tributary of Meriç)

Rural area

There were 3 towns and 10 villages in the rural area of the district. Now their official status became "neighborhood of Ergene".

References

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