Babaeski
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| Province (il) : | Kırklareli | |||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 26 ' N , 27 ° 6' E | |||
| Height : | 55 m | |||
| Residents : | 29,569 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 288 | |||
| Postal code : | 39 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 39 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 9 Mahalle | |||
| Mayor : | Abdullah Hacı ( CHP ) | |||
| Postal address : | Fatih Caddesi Babaeski 39200 Babeski |
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| Babaeski County | ||||
| Residents : | 48,391 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 670 km² | |||
| Population density : | 72 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Hakan Özarslan | |||
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Babaeski ( Bulgarian Бабаески ) is a Turkish city and capital of the district of the same name in the Turkish province of Kırklareli near the border with Bulgaria . It is located in the Eastern Thrace region , on the southern slopes of the Strandscha (Yıldız) Mountains, around 25 km from Kırklareli . In late antiquity it was called Burdizon , in the Middle Ages it was called Bulgarophygon (literally: "Bulgarian flight").
geography
The city is located about 35 km south-southeast of the provincial capital on the D100 or D555 ( E87 ) trunk road . The city is connected to the north-running O-3 ( E80 ) motorway, which runs from Edirne to İstanbul , via junction K5 . In addition, the city has a railway connection to the provincial capital Kırklareli.
The district with the third largest population has a higher population density than the provincial average (55.9 inhabitants per km²). In addition to the district town (61% of the district's population), the district consists of another three Belediye (communities): Alpullu (2,321), Büyükmandıra (3,402) and Karahalil (1,439 inhabitants). The district still includes 31 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 376 residents. Six villages have more than 500 inhabitants: Sinanlı (1,172), Nadırlı (953), Pancarköy (754), Katranca (685), Kuleli (646) and Taşağıl Bucak Merkezi (552 inhabitants).
history
The city played a strategic role in the defense of Constantinople throughout its history . That is why the Romans built the Via Militaris road . A fork in the Via Militaris led from Burdizon to Deultum on the Black Sea coast and to the Via Pontica .
Throughout the Middle Ages, membership of the region was fought over between the Bulgarian and Byzantine empires . In 756 Emperor Constantine V defeated a Bulgarian army under Khan Kormisosch at the Battle of Burdizon . After the victory he called Burdizon in Bulgarophygon order. The victory of the Byzantines probably also led to the overthrow of the Bulgarian ruler. In 836 a Bulgarian army headed by Khan Malamir invaded Thrace and captured Bulgarophygon after the Byzantine emperor Theophilus broke a 30-year peace.
In 896 the Bulgarians stood again at the gates of Bulgarophygon. In the Battle of Bulgarophygon , the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon I defeated the Byzantines and subsequently conquered Northern Thessalia , Epirus and large parts of what is now Macedonia . The Byzantines, who had found themselves in a difficult position again because of the advance of the Arabs in the east, undertook to pay annual tribute to the Bulgarians again and to cede further areas on the Black Sea, Epirus and southern Thessalia. The Bulgarians rose to become the "most privileged economic nation".
At the beginning of the 11th century, however, the Byzantines under Emperor Basil II were again able to gain the upper hand. In 1204 the Crusaders succeeded in taking Constantinople, making Bulgarophygon the foreshore of the capital of the newly established Latin Empire . At the end of the 14th century, the Ottomans succeeded in conquering the region.
During the First Balkan War (1912-1913), the Bulgarian army defeated the Ottoman at Babaeski, which opened the way for the advance on Constantinople (now Istanbul).
population
Until the Second Balkan War (1913), many Bulgarians lived here (see Thracian Bulgarians ) and Greeks who were expelled until the Greco-Turkish War (see also Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa ).
In the following time Roma , Balkan Turks , Crimean Tatars and Pomaks (Bulgarian Muslims ) from the former European Ottoman provinces settled in Babaeski.
Attractions
One of the most important mosques in the city, the Ottoman Semiz Ali Paşa Mosque (also Cedid Ali Pasha Mosque called). It was the Grand Vizier (died 1565) Semiz (Cedid) Ali Pasha, together with a now destroyed madrasa donated and after 1560, perhaps 1569–1575 or 1585/86, completed by the famous architect Sinan . It is a six-pillar mosque, the main dome being underpinned (supported) by five semi-domes, two each in the north and south, and one above the mihrab area extending from the main room . Under the side half-domes, elegant galleries are supported by marble columns with folded capitals. Sinan perfected the hexagonal principle, which he from the Üç-Serefeli Mosque in Edirne taken and z. B. varied with the Sinan Paşa Mosque in Istanbul for the first time in 1554–1555 / 56. The space of the Semiz Ali Paşa Mosque and the structural elements form a unit. Mukarnas crown the entrance to the mosque , with a double vestibule ( revak ) in front of it. Five domes shield the believers directly on the mosque wall, a pillar-supported pent roof leads over into the mosque courtyard with an attractive cleaning fountain ( Şadırvan ).
Next to the mosque, the river flows Büyük Dere or Şeytan Deresi , over which the Babaeski Bridge or Sultan - Murat IV. -Bridge spans. This bridge was donated by the sultan of the same name in 1633, as a stone inscription shows. It has six arches, is 72 meters long and 5.85 meters wide and created a river crossing of the important transit route Adrianople - Constantinople .
Another building by Sinan can be found south of the nearby village of Alpullu. It is the Sokollu-Mehmet-Paşa Bridge over the Ergene River. This Sokollu Mehmed Paschas foundation was built around the second half of the 16th century (date of construction is unknown) from seamless stone blocks. The bridge is 123 meters long, and the middle and largest arch has a span of 20.05 meters. A balcony protrudes at the highest point.
Trivia
The best-known family from Babaeski today is that of Alexis Tsipras , who was elected Prime Minister of Greece in January 2015 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 4, 2019
- ↑ a b Fine Jr./John VA: Chapter 5. Bulgaria under Symeon, 893-927 in "The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century", University of Michigan Press, 1991, p 137 -157, ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3 .
- ^ Warren Treadgold: A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
- ↑ Constantin Jireček : Chapter VIII. The Car Symeon in History of the Bulgarians , Georg Olm Verlag, 1977 (Orig .: Verlag von F. Tempsky, Prague, 1876)
- ↑ Lyubomir Miletich : Разорението на тракийскитеѣ българи презъ 1913 година (. Bulg Razorjawaneto na trakijskite Balgari prez 1913 godina) Publisher Balgarski bestseller, Sofia, 2003, p 303, ISBN 954-9308-14-6
- ↑ Images and data on archnet ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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