Sincan is a municipality and metropolitan district of

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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. Its area is 880 km², and its population is 572,609 (2022). It is a large town 27 km from the city of

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. Its elevation is . Sincan has friendly relations with the municipality of Doboj Jug from

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. Sincan District hosts ASO 1. Organize Sanayi Bölgesi, the biggest Organized Industrial Zone in Ankara, operated by Ankara Chamber of Industry.

Demographics

Geography

Sincan stands on a plain surrounded by hills and watered by the Ankara River, a tributary of the Sakarya River. There is some agriculture and light industry in Sincan, but the majority of people commute to Ankara by rail. The symbol of the municipality is the

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. The central square is called ''Lale Meydanı'' ( Turkish for "tulip square"), and every year a tulip festival is held where plastic tulips are handed out in the streets.

Composition

There are 57 neighbourhoods in Sincan District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023. * 29 Ekim * Adalet * Ahi Evran * Akçaören * Akşemsettin * Alagöz * Alcı * Anayurt * Andiçen * Atatürk * Bacı * Beyobası * Çiçektepe * Çoğlu * Çokören * Cumhuriyet * Erkeksu * Ertuğrulgazi * Esenler * Fatih * Fevzi Çakmak * Gazi * Gazi Osmanpaşa * Girmeç * Gökçek * Hisarlıkaya * Hürriyet * İlyakut * İncirlik * İstasyon * İstiklal * Kesiktaş * Malazgirt * Malıköy * Maraşal Çakmak * Menderes * Mevlana * Mülk * Mustafa Kemal * Osmaniye * Osmanlı * Pınarbaşı * Plevne * Polatlar * Saraycık * Selçuklu * Tandoğan * Tatlar * Törekent * Türkobası * Ücret * Ulubatlı Hasan * Yeniçimşit * Yenihisar * Yenikayı * Yenipeçenek * Yunus Emre

History

Even prior to the period of the

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, a village stood in this location, which subsequently grew to when

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

commissioned a housing project here for Turkish refugees from

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. The battle saw fighting during the Battle of the Sakarya in 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 ...

. This was the furthest spot in

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in which the Greek Army had advanced to.

Well-known residents

* Şafak Sezer, actor and comedian * Sinan Şamil Sam, professional boxer * Oğuz Yılmaz, folk musician

References

External links

District governor's official website

District municipality's official website
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Local news website
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