Cendere, Nallıhan
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Cendere (historically known as Çandar) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of
Nallıhan Nallıhan is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,079 km2, and its population 26,553 (2022). It is 157 km from the city of Ankara. Its elevation is 625 m. Nallıhan is one of many towns that claim to ...
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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 ...
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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 59 (2022). Despite its small size today, during the early days of the
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 ...
, Cendere (then named ''Çandar'') was an important town, and the politically powerful and wealthy
Çandarlı family The Çandarlı family (; ) was a prominent Turkish political family which provided the Ottoman Empire with five grand viziers during the 14th and 15th centuries. At the time, it was the second most important family after the Ottoman dynasty itse ...
originated from the village, as did the first
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire The grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire ( or ''Sadr-ı Azam'' (''Sadrazam''); Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: or ) was the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sultan in the Ottoman Empire, with the absolute p ...
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Alaeddin Pasha Alaeddin Erden Ali Pasha (Söğüt, – Bursa, 1331), was the son of Osman I, first Ottoman ruler, and the half-brother of Orhan I, who succeeded their father in the leadership of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was Rabia Bala Hatun, daughter of ...
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Çandarlı family The Çandarlı family (; ) was a prominent Turkish political family which provided the Ottoman Empire with five grand viziers during the 14th and 15th centuries. At the time, it was the second most important family after the Ottoman dynasty itse ...


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Neighbourhoods in Nallıhan District {{Nallıhan-geo-stub