Menteşe is a planned district and second level municipality in

Muğla Province Muğla Province ( tr, , ) is a province of Turkey, at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its seat is Muğla, about inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum, Ölüdeniz, Marmaris and Fethiye, ...

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

. According to the 2012 Metropolitan Municipalities Law (law no. 6360), all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750,000 will become metropolitan municipalities 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 ...

within the metropolitan municipalities will be second level municipalities. The law also creates new districts within the provinces in addition to present districts. These changes will be effective by the local elections in 2014. Thus after 2014 the present

Muğla Muğla () is a city in southwestern Turkey. The city is the center of the District of Menteşe and Muğla Province, which stretches along Turkey's Aegean coast. Muğla's center is situated inland at an altitude of 660 m and lies at a dista ...

central district will be named ''Menteşe'' and the name Muğla will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality. ( Menteşe was the name of a 14th-century beylik in and around Muğla Province.)

Rural area

There were four towns and 48 villages in the rural area of Menteşe.Statistical Institute
Now their official became "neighborhood of Menteşe".

References

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