A village ( tr, köy) is the second smallest settlement unit in

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 ...

Hierarchical model

There are 81 provinces ( tr, il) in Turkey. The governor of each province is called '' vali''. There are a number of

ilçe The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...

(district) in each province. In

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, the most populous province, the number of districts is 39. But in small provinces the number may be as low as 3. In 51 provinces, the capital of the province is also a district known as the central district with the same name. (i.e., The central district of

Karaman Province Karaman Province ( tr, ) is a province of south-central Turkey. It has an area of . A 2010 estimate puts the population at 232,633 people. According to the 2000 census, the population was 243,210. The population density is 27.54 people/km. The ...

is called

Karaman Karaman, historically known as Laranda (Greek: Λάρανδα), is a city in south central Turkey, located in Central Anatolia, north of the Taurus Mountains, about south of Konya. It is the capital district of the Karaman Province. According t ...

) In 30 provinces however, the capital city is also divided into central districts, all of which have unique names. The total number of districts is 919 (including the 51 central districts). The governor of each district is called ''

kaymakam Kaymakam, also known by many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrators of district kazas. The title has been retained a ...

'' .

Smaller units

There are more than 30000 villages in Turkey. During the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

era the villages were called ''karye'', but in Turkey they are known as ''

köy Köy is the word for "village" in Western Oghuz languages that are geographically western, such as Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Crimean Tatar. It is a loanword from Persian ''gūy'' (or probably more likely ''kūy''), which originally means "pat ...

''. There are several hundred villages in each province. All villages are in the rural areas of the districts. The village heads are called '' muhtar''. During the early years of the Turkish Republic, sub districts called bucak had been established for the villages in remote areas. The center of the sub district was chosen as one of the villages. Now although they continue as a legal entity in 51 province, they have no administrative function.

Villages as neighborhoods

According to law 6360, beginning by 2013 in 30 provinces the villages were officially considered as the neighborhoods ( tr, mahalle) of the districts. Thus the municipalities in the district centers were held responsible for the villages also. The number of villages (and subdistricts) which were renamed as neighborhood is 16803. But this legal organization doesn't affect the 18214 villages with a total population of 8.7% in other 51 provinces.Statistical Institute
/ref> Thus the other villages, except for the more populous villages with municipalities of their own, ( tr, belde ) don't have any municipal services other than what can be carried on by the muhtars.

Gallery

Some examples of Turkish villages (Except Çakırlar and Ayvalı all of them are officially called neighborhood) File:Hayriye inegol 001.jpg, Hayriye
(İnegöl district of Bursa Province) File:Cami cevresi.jpg, Çakırlar
(Yapraklı district of Çankırı Province) File:IMG 0221 Harbiye - Hatay province - Turkey.jpg, Harbiye
(Antakya Central district of Hatay Province) File:Denizciler.jpg, Denizciler
(İskenderıun district of Hatay Province) File:Mordoğan1.jpg,

Mordoğan Mordoğan is a sea-side township with own municipality in Karaburun district in Turkey's Izmir Province. The town is situated on the eastern shoreline of Karaburun Peninsula within the Gulf of İzmir at about twenty kilometers to the south of the ...

(Karaburun district of İzmir Province) File:Cemilli, Mersin Province.jpg, Cemilli
(Mezitli Central district of Mersin Province) File:Limonlu Mersin Province.jpg,

Limonlu Limonlu (ancient: ''Antiochia Lamotidos''; Byzantine: ''Lamousia''; Arabic: ''Lāmis''; Armenian: ''Lamos'') is a small town in Mersin Province, Turkey (Popularly called Lamas). Geography Limonlu is a coastal town at It is by the river Limon ...

(Erdemli district of Mersin Province) File:Selimiye koyu.jpg,

Selimiye, Marmaris Selimiye is a village in Marmaris District, Muğla Province, Turkey. It belongs to the municipality of Bozburun Bozburun is a small seaside town with own municipality in Marmaris district, in southwestern Turkey. The permanent population is abo ...

(Marmaris district of Muğla Province) File:DalyanTurkey.jpg, Dalyan (Ortaca district of Muğla Province) File:Ayvalı, Nevşehir.jpg, Ayvalı
(Ürgüp district of Nevşehir Province File:Kumbag Tekirdag 2010.jpg, Kumbağ
(Süleymanpaşa Central district of Tekirdağ Province) File:Keferze 07.JPG,

Altıntaş Altıntaş is a town and a district of Kütahya Province in the Aegean Region, Turkey, Aegean region of Turkey. History Altıntaş was previously known as "Kurtköy". The district's name means "goldstone" in Turkish and was given due to the lar ...

Midyat district of Mardin Province

References

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