Paşayiğit is a neighbourhood of the town
Keşan
Keşan (; ; ; Byzantine Greek: Ρούσιον, ''Rusion'') is a town in Edirne Province, Turkey. It is the seat of Keşan District.[Keşan District
Keşan District is a district of the Edirne Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Keşan.] ,
Edirne Province
Edirne Province () is a Turkish province located in East Thrace. Part of European Turkey, it is one of only three provinces located entirely within continental Europe. Its area is 6,145 km2, and its population is 414,714 (2022). Edirne Province ...
,
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. Its population is 1,308 (2022). It is situated on Turkish state highway
D.550 which connects Keşan to Edirne. Its distance to
Keşan
Keşan (; ; ; Byzantine Greek: Ρούσιον, ''Rusion'') is a town in Edirne Province, Turkey. It is the seat of Keşan District.[Edirne
Edirne (; ), historically known as Orestias, Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the Edirne Province, province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second c ...]
is .
The name of the town refers to a certain Paşayiğit, a
Turkmen leader from
Saruhan (present
Manisa
Manisa () is a city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province, lying approximately 40 km northeast of the major city of İzmir. The city forms the urban part of the districts Şehzadeler and Yunusemre, with ...
, Turkey) who captured the town on behalf of the
Ottoman Empire
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in the 14th century. Although Paşayiğit preserved its Greek character up to 20th century, after the
Turkish War of Independence
, strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...
, according to
population exchange
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agreement,
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
population was replaced by Turkish population from
Drama, Greece
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. Between 1999 and the
2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''
belde
Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish.
All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...
'').
Mayor's page
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References
Populated places in Keşan District
Neighbourhoods in Edirne Province
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