Kocahıdır is a village in
Ä°psala District
Ä°psala District is a Districts of Turkey, district of the Edirne Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Ä°psala. of
Edirne Province
Edirne Province () is a Turkish province located in East Thrace. Part of European Turkey, it is one of only three provinces located entirely within continental Europe. Its area is 6,145 km2, and its population is 414,714 (2022). Edirne Province ...
,
Turkey
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. The village had a population of 985 in 2022. Kocahıdır is south east of
Ä°psala
Ä°psala (; ) is a town in Edirne Province in northwestern Turkey. It is the seat of Ä°psala District.[Bulgaria
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. In 1938 during another migration, Muslim families from
Romania
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were also settled in Kocahıdır. Between 1999 and 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 ...
'').
Law No. 6360
''Official Gazette
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'', 6 December 2012 .
Most important economic sector of the town is dairying.
References
Villages in Ä°psala District
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