Kofçaz
Kofçaz | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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Province (il) : | Kırklareli | |||
Coordinates : | 41 ° 56 ' N , 27 ° 10' E | |||
Height : | 452 m | |||
Residents : | 644 (2010) | |||
Telephone code : | (+90) 288 | |||
Postal code : | 39 700 | |||
License plate : | 39 | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
Structure : | 2 malls | |||
Mayor : | Ziya Karataş ( AKP ) | |||
County of Kofçaz | ||||
Residents : | 2,368 (2010) | |||
Surface: | 545 km² | |||
Population density : | 4 inhabitants per km² | |||
Kaymakam : | Emre Öztürk | |||
Website (Kaymakam): |
Kofçaz ( Bulgarian Кофчаз ) is a town and capital of the district of the same name in the province of Kırklareli in Eastern Thrace . The place is about 24 km north of the provincial capital Kırklareli on the Fındıklı stream.
Kofçaz was a Bulgarian village until the Second Balkan War in 1913, when the Bulgarian population was expelled from the Turks in the course of the reconquest of Eastern Thrace (→ Thracian Bulgarians ).
Located in the north of the province district is bordered to the south by the central district ( Merkez ) Kırklareli, on the west by the province of Edirne and to the north by Bulgaria . It is the least populous county and also has the lowest population density in the province. In addition to the district town, it consists of 16 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 108 residents. The population ranges from 245 ( Elmacık ) to 32 ( Aşağıkanara , which is also the poorest village in the province).
The Yıldız Dağları occupy part of the district.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 4, 2019
- ↑ Македоно-одринското опълчение 1912-1913 г. Личен състав , Bulgarian Central Archives , Sofia, 2006, p. 852 .; Lyubomir Miletitsch: The annihilation of the Thracian Bulgarians in 1913 (Bulgarian Разорението на тракийскитеѣ българи презъ 1913 година), Sofia 1918, p. 297