Altıeylül is a municipality and
district
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of
Balıkesir Province
Balıkesir Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in northwestern Turkey with coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, Aegean. Its area is 14,583 km ...
,
Turkey
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. Its area is 956 km
2, and its population is 183,736 (2022).
The district was established in 2012, when Balıkesir Province was declared a
metropolitan municipality
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Canada
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as a part of the
2013 Turkish local government reorganisation Municipalities () are the basic units of local government in Turkey. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute the population of Turkey
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(Law no. 6360). Altıeylül was created out of the former Balıkesir central district, along with
Karesi. The name ''Altıeylül'' means "6 September", which was the date of recovery of Balıkesir during the
Turkish War of Independence
, strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...
in 1922.
Composition
There are 94
neighbourhoods
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...
in Altıeylül District:
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
* 1.Gündoğan
* 2.Gündoğan
* Akarsu
* Akçaköy
* Aliağa
* Altıeylül
* Aslıhan
* Aslıhantepeciği
* Ataköy
* Atköy
* Aynaoğlu
* Ayşebacı
* Ayvacık
* Ayvatlar
* Bağalan
* Bahçedere
* Bahçelievler
* Balıklı
* Bayat
* Bereketli
* Beşpınar
* Boğatepe
* Bozen
* Büyükbostancı
* Çakıllık
* Çamköy
* Çandır
* Çayırhisar
* Çiftçidere
* Çiftlikköy
* Çınarlıdere
* Çinge
* Çukurhüseyin
* Dallımandıra
* Dedeburnu
* Dereçiftlik
* Dereköy
* Dinkçiler
* Dişbudak
* Ertuğrul
* Gaziosmanpaşa
* Gökçeören
* Gökköy
* Gümüşçeşme
* Hacıilbey
* Halalca
* Hasan Basri Çantay
* İnkaya
* Kabaklı
* Karabeyler
* Karakavak
* Karakaya
* Karaman
* Karamanlar
* Kasaplar
* Kesirven
* Kılcılar
* Kirazköy
* Kirazpınar
* Konakpınar
* Köseler
* Köylü Köyü
* Kozderegüvem
* Kozören
* Küçükbostancı
* Küpeler
* Kürse
* Kuşkaya
* Kutludüğün
* Kuyualan
* Macarlar
* Meryemdere
* Nergiz
* Orhanlı
* Ortamandıra
* Ovabayındır
* Ovaköy
* Pamukçu
* Paşaköy
* Pilevne
* Sarıalan
* Selimiye
* Sıvatpınar
* Sütlüce
* Taşköy
* Taşpınar
* Tayyipler
* Türkali
* Turnalar
* Yakupköy
* Yenice
* Yeşiller
* Yeşilyurt
* Yıldız
References
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Populated places in Balıkesir Province
Districts of Balıkesir Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey