Kızılpınar is a former town in
Çerkezköy
Çerkezköy is a town and district of Tekirdağ Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey.
Facts
Çerkezköy is located in inland Thrace just to the west of the outlying Istanbul districts of Çatalca and Silivri. Çerkezköy is an industrial area. ...
district of
TekirdaÄŸ Province
TekirdaÄŸ Province ( tr, TekirdaÄŸ 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. TekirdaÄŸ Province is border ...
,
Turkey. Before the
2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''
belde'').
It is subdivided into three ''
mahalle'':
Atatürk,
Gültepe and
Namık Kemal.
[Mahalle]
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. It lies directly to the southwest Çerkezköy. Distance to
Tekirdağ is about . The population of Kızılpınar is 54,268 (2022).
The town was founded by
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
refugees from
Bulgaria during the
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
The Russo-Turkish wars (or Ottoman–Russian wars) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries. It was one of the longest series of military conflicts in European histor ...
. According to Mayor's page, some members of
Malkoçoğlu Family
The Malkoçoğlu ( tr, Malkoçoğulları, Malkoçoğlu ailesi) or Yahyalı was an Ottoman Serbian noble family whose members led the '' akıncı'' corps of the empire between the 14th–16th centuries. They served mainly in the Balkan conquest of ...
of the
Ottoman Empire were among these refugees.
References
External links
District municipality's Official Website
Çerkezköy District
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