Yenimahalle is a municipality and
metropolitan district
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of
Ankara Province
Ankara Province (, ) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey with the capital city Ankara. Its area is 25,632 km2, and its population is 5,782,285 (2022).
History
The site of the modern city has been home to settlements ...
,
Turkey
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. Its area is 219 km
2, and its population is 704,652 (2022).
[ It is a fast-growing urban residential district of the city of ]Ankara
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
, Turkey's capital. Its elevation is .
Yenimahalle today
The name ''Yenimahalle'' means ''the new quarter'' and in the late 1940s the area of open land to the west of the city was allocated for civil servants and workers housing. This grew with the construction of the E5 highway through the area and even more when the metro was built. Today the district mainly consists of large estates of apartment buildings and although the area is being filled up with concrete buildings there is still green space, tennis courts and other sports areas. There is some illegal building at the edge of the district but Yenimahalle is mainly planned development. This is the home for both of Ankara's teams: Gençlerbirliği and Ankaragücü, although their shared stadium is in Altındağ
Altındağ is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 123 km2, and its population is 413,994 (2022). It covers the northeastern part of the city of Ankara. Its elevation is .
Demographics
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.
82% of the working population are civil servants or workers in the city of Ankara. There is also a large retired community, and a small but growing number of traders and shopkeepers. Ankara's largest industrial area, OSTIM Industrial Zone, is on the edge of the district too. The rural areas are used mainly for growing grains and pulses.
The headquarters of the national intelligence service '' Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı'' is in Yenimahalle.
Demographics
Composition
There are 55 neighbourhoods
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in Yenimahalle District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
* 25 Mart
* Anadolu
* Aşağı Yahyalar
*
Ata
* Avcılar
* Barış
* Barıştepe
* Batı Sitesi
*
BeÅŸtepe
* Burç
* Çamlıca
* Çarşı
* Çiğdemtepe
* Demet
* Demetgül
* Demetlale
* Emniyet
* Ergazi
* Ergenekon
* Esentepe
* Gayret
* Gazi
* Güventepe
* Güzelyaka
* Ä°lkyerleÅŸim
* İnönü
* Işınlar
*
İvedikköy
* Kaletepe
* Karacakaya
* Kardelen
* Karşıyaka
* Kayalar
* Kentkoop
* Kuzey Yıldızı
* Macun
* Mehmet Akif Ersoy
* Memlik
* Ostim
* Özevler
* Pamuklar
* Ragıp Tüzün
* Serhat
* Susuz
* Tepealtı
* Turgut Özal
* UÄŸur Mumcu
* Varlık
* Yakacık
* Yenibatı
* Yeniçağ
* YeÅŸilevler
* Yukarı Yahyalar
* Yunus Emre
* Yuva
Places of interest
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Akköprü
Akköprü (, "white bridge", ) is a historical bridge in Yenimahalle district of Ankara, Turkey, crosses the Ankara River in front of Varlık neighbourhood. It is the oldest bridge in Ankara and still in good condition. The neighbourhood around t ...
, a bridge over the Ankara River, built by the
Seljuk Turks
The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; , ''Saljuqian'',) alternatively spelled as Saljuqids or Seljuk Turks, was an Oghuz Turks, Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate society, Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persi ...
in 1222, on the old trade route to
Baghdad
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.
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Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo, park and farm, financed by
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...
(1881-1938) personally to provide a place of recreation and agriculture in the city. It contains the ''Ankara Zoo'' and a full-size replica of the house in
Salonica
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(today in
Greece
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), where Atatürk was born.
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Ankara 75th Anniversary Race Course, horse racetrack
References
External links
District governor's official website
District municipality's official website
{{Portal bar, Geography, Turkey
Populated places in Ankara Province
Districts of Ankara Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey