Çerkezköy
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Tekirdağ | |||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 17 ′ N , 28 ° 0 ′ E | |||
| Residents : | 123,119 (2014) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 282 | |||
| Postal code : | 59 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 59 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2015) | ||||
| Mayor : | Vahap Akay ( CHP ) | |||
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| Çerkezköy County | ||||
| Residents : | 123,119 (2014) | |||
| Surface: | 326 km² | |||
| Population density : | 378 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Metzin Kubilay | |||
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Çerkezköy ( Circassian Village / Circassian Village ) is a regional center west of Istanbul .
geography
Çerkezköy is located about 80 km west of Istanbul city center in Eastern Thrace . It has 123,119 inhabitants (2014).
history
Like the village, it was founded together with the villages of Çatalca , Şarköy and Siliviri after the Caucasus War in 1864, when a total of two million Circassians and Tatars from the Caucasus were settled in Turkey .
The long insignificant village has meanwhile developed into an up-and-coming Turkish industrial city and a district town in the province of Tekirdağ ,
economy
Electrical engineering and the automotive supply industry are concentrated here. Since 2019, Grundig televisions have been manufactured in a newly built Arçelik plant, among other things . The German company Coko-Werk has a location here with 270 employees.
traffic
The Çerkezköy train station of the same name is located on the İstanbul Sirkeci – Swilengrad railway line . The Orient Express also stopped here . A few kilometers to the southwest runs the European route 80 , which takes you to Istanbul, 100 km away, and to neighboring European countries.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from April 15, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed April 15, 2015
- ↑ http://www.technik-ganz-einfach.de/neue-produktionsstaette-fuer-grundig-fernsehgeraete
