Kofçaz

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Kofçaz
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Kofçaz (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Kırklareli
Coordinates : 41 ° 56 '  N , 27 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 56 '24 "  N , 27 ° 9' 43"  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
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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

  1. ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 4, 2019
  2. ↑ 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