Çiçekdağı

Çiçekdağı
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Kırşehir
Coordinates :	39 ° 36 '  N , 34 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 36 '20 "  N , 34 ° 24' 34"  E
Height :	950  m
Residents :	6,454 (2018)
Telephone code :	(+90) 386
Postal code :	40 700
License plate :	40
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure :	7 Mahalle
Belediye Başkanı:	Hasan Hakanoğl ( AKP )
Postal address :	Yenişehir Mah., Ataturk Cd. No: 356 40700 Çiçekdağı / Kırşehir
Çiçekdağı County
Residents :	14,735 (2018)
Surface:	891 km²
Population density :	17 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Erkan Adibellİ
Website (Kaymakam):	www.cicekdagi.gov.tr

The town of Çiçekdağı is the administrative center of the district of the same name ( İlçe ) in the province of Kırşehir . Çiçekdağı, in German Blumenberg, lies at the foot of the 1691 m high mountain range of the same name, over which the D785 road leads to Kırşehir, 67 km away (55 km as the crow flies). It is just under six kilometers to the northeast to the next larger city of Yerköy in the province of Yozgat .

geography

The district Çiçekdağı located in the extreme northeast of the province. It borders in the west on Akçakent County and in the south on the central district ( Merkez ) and Boztepe County . The Yozgat Province forms a border in the north and east, and Nevşehir Province in the southeast .

The climate is continental with cold winters and warm summers. Most of the moderate rainfall occurs in spring.

The county’s economy is based on agriculture. In terms of special crops, sugar beets are worth mentioning. Deposits of lignite and fluorite can be found in mineral resources .

In addition to the district town (2018: 43.8% of the district population) with Köseli (2,615 inhabitants), the district consists of another municipality ( Belediye ) and 45 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 126 inhabitants. The population scale ranges from 562 ( Boğazevci ) down to 33 ( Kavaklıöz and Alimpınar ). 16 villages have more than 126 inhabitants. The population density (16.5) is lower than that of the province (with 36.7 inhabitants per km²).

history

The district is the oldest in the province of Kırşehir after the central district. Çiçekdağı was first mentioned in 1845 under the name Boyalık Köyü . In 1855, under the name Mecidiye (in honor of the then ruling sultan Abdülmecid ), it became the center of a Nahiye of the same name , which was administratively attached to Yozgat . Yozgat was at that time under the name Bozok the main town of a Sanjak and in multiple changes with Ankara until the establishment of the Vilâyet Ankara in 1867 the main town of the Eyâlet Ankara or Bozok. Sultan Abdülaziz raised the Nahiye to a Kaza . After it was moved, the center of the circle 1910 to 1912 in the village Kırdök, the was the first year the First World War by Enver Pasha , the center temporarily to Mucur laid. At the urging of the residents, the Mecidiye district was restored. According to the information on the municipality's website, the district was dissolved from Yozgat in 1924 and added to the Kırşehir Province. However, Mecidiye is mentioned as Kaza des Sanjaks Kırşehir as early as 1912. In 1930 the district and town received their current name.

When the province of Kırşehir was dissolved in 1954, the district came to the province of Yozgat and after the reestablishment of the province of Kırşehir in 1957 it reverted to it.

Personalities

• Neşet Ertaş (1938-2012); Folk singer from Kırtıllar village
• Suat Yalaz (1932–2020), comic book author and illustrator, caricaturist, screenwriter and director

swell

• Website of the municipality (Turkish)
• Website of the Kaymakam (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 5, 2019
2. ↑ Andreas Birken: The provinces of the Ottoman Empire. 1st edition. Reichert, Wiesbaden: 1976, ISBN 9783920153568 , p. 131
3. ^ Neşet Ertaş ( Memento from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )