Çakıllı (former ''Erenler'' and ''Çakalondon'') is 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 ...

'') in the

Vize District Vize District is a district of the Kırklareli Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Vize.Kırklareli Province Kırklareli Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province in northwestern Turkey on the west coast of the Black Sea. The province neighbours Bulgaria to the north along a long border. It borders the province of Edirne to the west and the provinc ...

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 1,981 (2022). The town is situated on Turkish state highway D.020 which connects İstanbul to Kırklareli. Distance to Vize is and to Kırklareli is . The earliest inhabitants around Çakıllı were

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of the ancient ages. In

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it was a part of the

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and

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 Centr ...

s. Turkish traveller

Evliya Çelebi Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (), was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman explorer who travelled through his home country during its cultural zenith as well as neighboring lands. He travelled for over 40 years, rec ...

described the settlement as a settlement where Turks and Greeks lived together in the 17th century. After the

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) The Russo-Turkish wars ( ), or the Russo-Ottoman wars (), began in 1568 and continued intermittently until 1918. They consisted of twelve conflicts in total, making them one of the longest series of wars in the history of Europe. All but four of ...

Turkish refugees from

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were also settled in Çakıllı. Çakıllı was declared a seat of township in 1969.Mayor's page
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References

Town municipalities in Turkey Populated places in Vize District {{Kırklareli-geo-stub