Şarköy
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 The Atatürk -Boulevard in Şarköy |
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| Province (il) : | Tekirdağ | |||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 36 ' N , 27 ° 6' E | |||
| Height : | 12 m | |||
| Residents : | 17,095 (2010) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 282 | |||
| Postal code : | 59800 | |||
| License plate : | 59 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2011) | ||||
| Mayor : | Suleyman Altınok ( CHP ) | |||
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| Şarköy County | ||||
| Residents : | 30,409 (2010) | |||
| Surface: | 481 km² | |||
| Population density : | 63 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Nuri Ziya Türkdoğan | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Şarköy is a district town and a district in the south of the Turkish province of Tekirdağ in Eastern Thrace . Şarköy has 17,095 and the district 30,409 inhabitants (as of 2010).
The district borders on the province of Çanakkale in the south . The city itself is on the coast of the Marmara Sea . There are 26 villages in the district . The name of the city is wrongly mentioned as the origin for the naming of the Şarköy kilime , but these derive their name from the homonymous Turkish name of the place Pirot , which was also called Şarköy in Ottoman times.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 11, 2011
- ^ R. John Howe: Textiles and Text - Pen and Tim Hays on Manastir prayer kilims
