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Süleymanpaşa
Süleymanpaşa () is a municipality and district of Tekirdağ Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,053 km2, and its population is 215,558 (2022). It covers the city of Tekirdağ and the surrounding countryside. The district and municipality Süleymanpaşa was created at the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation from the former central district of Tekirdağ. The name ''Süleymanpaşa'' refers to the Ottoman prince Süleyman, the first commander of Turkish troops in Thrace in the 14th century. The Tekirdağ Olympic Ice Skating Hall was opened in 2018. Composition There are 78 neighbourhoods in Süleymanpaşa District: Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. * 100.Yıl * Ahmedikli * Ahmetçe * Akçahalil * Altınova * Araphacı * Aşağıkılıçlı * Atatürk * Avşar * Aydoğdu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tekirdağ Olympic Ice Skating Hall
Tekirdağ Olympic Ice Skating Hall () is an indoor ice rink for ice skating, ice hockey and curling located in Süleymanpaşa district of Tekirdağ, Turkey. The first ice rink in Tekirdağ was a temporary open-air venue established by the District Municipality of Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ on 7 February 2015. The temporary open-air ice rink has existed for three years until 2017 including. The construction of the Tekirdağ Olympic İce Skating Hall began in 2014. Built by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, it was opened in 2018. It cost 20 million (approx. US$3m). The venue for ice skating, ice hockey and curling Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ... competitions has a seating capacity of 500. The men's and women's teams of the Tekirdağ Curling S.K. compete in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumbağ
Kumbağ is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,965 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''belde''). It is situated in the Marmara Sea coast of East Thrace (the European part of Turkey), to the south of Tekirdağ. The town was a Greek fishing village named ''Kumbos'' or ''Chrisampelos'' () prior to Balkan Wars. After the Turkish War of Independence in 1920s, Greeks were replaced by the Turks from Greece and Bulgaria. In 1935s Turks from Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ... also settled in Kumbağ. In 1993 it was declared a seat of township. With sandy beaches the main revenue of the town is tourism. Farming is another major sector. References {{DEFAULTSORT: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karacakılavuz
Karacakılavuz is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,658 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''belde''). It is situated to the northwest of the artificial pond named after the town. The distance to Tekirdağ is . According to a popular legend the settlement was named after a roe deer () which acted as a guide () to the pursuing hunters and directed them to the location of the settlement. However, former name of the settlement during the Ottoman Empire was ''Karacakuloğuz'' (Dark servant Oğuz) which diminishes the plausibility of the legend. The oldest tombstones in the graveyard of the settlement are dated 1730. In 1884-1885, Turks from Sevlievo (whom had recently fallen under Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İnecik, Tekirdağ
İnecik is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ Province, Turkey. Its population is 586 (2022). Its Ottoman-era name was Aynadjik, and its Byzantine-era name was Chalcis (). History On account of its location, it is possible that the town is to be identified with the way-station (''mutatio'') of Bedizum, listed in the late Roman ''Itinerarium Burdigalense'', and/or the station Bitenas. Chalcis is first attested as a bishopric in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which was attended by its iconophile bishop, Sissinios. Another bishop, named Demetrios, is attested through a lead seal dating to the 8th or 9th centuries, and in the 9th century a ''droungarios'' named Staurakios or Theophylact. However, the see does not appear in the ''Notitiae Episcopatuum'' of the Patriarchate of Constantinople until the reign of Leo VI the Wise (). In 1051, a Pecheneg invasion was defeated near the town. In the ''Partitio Romaniae'', the town is listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tekirdağ
Tekirdağ () is a city in northwestern Turkey. It is located on the north coast of the Sea of Marmara, in the region of East Thrace. The city forms the urban part of the Süleymanpaşa district, with a population of 186,421 in 2022. Tekirdağ is a commercial centre with a harbour for agricultural products (the harbour is being expanded to accommodate a new rail link to the main freight line through Thrace). It is also home to Martas and the BOTAŞ Terminal, both of them important for trade activities in the Marmara Region. The town's best known product remains Tekirdağ rakı although it is also known for its cherries, celebrated with a festival every June. The proximity of the Greek and Bulgarian borders means that there are honorary consulates for both countries in Tekirdağ. Ferries from Tekirdağ sail to the nearby Marmara Islands during the summer. The nearest airport is Tekirdağ Çorlu Airport (TEQ) although there are many more flights to Istanbul Airport (IST). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tekirdağ Province
Tekirdağ Province (, ) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is 6,190 km2, and its population is 1,142,451 (2022). 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 Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east .... Tekirdağ Province is bordered by Istanbul Province to the east, Kırklareli Province to the north, Edirne Province to the west, and the Gallipoli peninsula of Çanakkale Province to the south. Tekirdağ is the capital of the province, and the third largest city in European Turkey after Istanbul and Çorlu. Agriculture The province of Tekirdağ is one of Turkey's the most important regions for viticulture and winemaking. The coastline betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Turkey
The Provinces of Turkey, 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the Ottoman Empire and in the early Turkish Republic, the corresponding unit was the ''qadaa, kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respective provincial capital (political), capital districts. However, many urban provinces, designated as greater municipalities, have a center consisting of multiple districts, such as the provincial capital of Ankara Province, Ankara province, Ankara, The City of Ankara, comprising nine separate districts. Additionally three provinces, Kocaeli, Sakarya, and Hatay have their capital district named differently from their province, as İzmit, Adapazarı, and Antakya respectively. A district may cover both rural and urban areas. In many provinces, one district of a province is designated the central district (''merkez ilçe'') from which the district is administered. The central district is administered by an appointed pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süleyman Pasha (son Of Orhan)
Süleyman Pasha (; 1306 – 1357) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman prince and the son of Sultan Orhan. He played a major role in early Ottoman expansion into Thrace in the 1350s. He was Orhan's eldest son and his favorite and, until his death due to a hunting accident, his heir presumptive. Motherhood Traditional Ottoman historiography wrote that Süleyman Pasha's mother was Nilüfer Hatun, who was also the mother of Murad I. This has been refuted by modern historiography: Süleyman's mother was actually the consort Orhan#Consorts, Efendize Hatun, while Nilüfer entered the Ottoman Imperial Harem, harem in 1325, twenty years after Süleyman's birth. Efendize was Orhan's cousin, the daughter of his uncle Gündüz Alp#Son of Ertuğrul, Gündüz Bey. Biography Süleyman Pasha was a great warrior, so much so that he deserved the title Ghazi (warrior), Ghazi. He was one of Orhan's main generals, especially in Thrace, and became known as the "Conqueror of Rumelia". He conquered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrace
Thrace (, ; ; ; ) is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe roughly corresponding to the province of Thrace in the Roman Empire. Bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea to the east, it comprises present-day southeastern Bulgaria (Northern Thrace), northeastern Greece (Western Thrace), and the European part of Turkey (East Thrace). Lands also inhabited by ancient Thracians extended in the north to modern-day Northern Bulgaria and Romania and to the west into Macedonia (region), Macedonia. Etymology The word ''Thrace'', from ancient Greek ''Thrake'' (Θρᾴκη), referred originally to the Thracians (ancient Greek ''Thrakes'' Θρᾷκες), an ancient people inhabiting Southeast Europe. The name ''Europe'' (ancient Greek Εὐρώπη), also at first referred to this region, before that term expanded to include its Europe, modern sense. It has been suggested that the name ''Thrace'' derives from the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahalle
is an Arabic word variously translated as district, quarter, ward, or neighborhood in many parts of the Arab world, the Balkans, Western Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and nearby nations. History Historically, mahallas were autonomous social institutions built around familial ties and Islamic rituals. Today it is popularly recognised also by non-Muslims as a neighbourhood in large cities and towns. Mahallas lie at the intersection of private family life and the public sphere. Important community-level management functions are performed through mahalle solidarity, such as religious ceremonies, life-cycle rituals, resource management and conflict resolution. It is an official administrative unit in many Middle Eastern countries. The word was brought to the Balkans through Ottoman Turkish ''mahalle'', but it originates in Arabic محلة (''mähallä''), from the root meaning "to settle", "to occupy". In September 2017, a Turkish-based association referred to the historical mahalle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
