Şenköy is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of
Yayladağı
Yayladağı (), formerly Ordu (; ), is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 445 km2, and its population is 36,803 (2022). It is on the border with Syria, south of the city of Antakya.
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Hatay Province
Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province ...
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Turkey
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. Its population is 875 (2022). Before 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 ...
'').
Also in 2013, it passed from the former central district of Hatay to the district of Yayladağı.
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Şenköy is south of Antakya (administrative center of Hatay) on the way to Yayladağı. The former name of Şenköy was ''Şeyhköy'' (village of sheik) referring to '' Sheik Ahmet Kuseyri'' who lived in the 16th century. According to nonconfirmed claims the sheik had been presented to ]Suleyman I
Suleiman I (; , ; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver () in his own realm, was the Ottoman sultan between 1520 and his death in 1566. Under his adminis ...
(also known as Suleyman the Magnificent) and was given a zeamet
Ziamet was a form of land tenure in the Ottoman Empire, consisting in grant of lands or revenues by the Ottoman Sultan to an individual in compensation for their services, especially military services. The ziamet system was introduced by Osman I, ...
(a kind of fief
A fief (; ) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form of feudal alle ...
). The tomb of the sheik is next to the mosque built in the 16th century. After his death in 1549, his tomb became a pilgrimage center.
Between 1918 and 1938 Şenköy was under French Mandate
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (; , also referred to as the Levant States; 1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, concerning the territori ...
. In 1939 together with the rest of Hatay Republic
Hatay State (; ; ), also known informally as the Republic of Hatay (), was a transitional nation that existed from 2 September 1938 to 29 June 1939, being located in the territory of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of the French Mandate of Syria. Th ...
it merged to Turkey.
The main product of the town is olive. There is also a small soap mill.A page about the town and the mill
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References
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Neighbourhoods in Yayladağı District