Mucur
| Mucur | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Kırşehir | |||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 4 ' N , 34 ° 23' E | |||
| Height : | 1093 m | |||
| Residents : | 13,049 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 386 | |||
| Postal code : | 40 500 | |||
| License plate : | 40 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 7 Mahalle | |||
| Belediye Başkanı: | Atılgan Yılmaz ( AKP ) | |||
| Postal address : | Solaklı Mh. İnönü Cd. No: 471 40500 Mucur / Kırşehir |
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| Mucur county | ||||
| Residents : | 18,763 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 992 km² | |||
| Population density : | 19 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Kaya Çelik | |||
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Mucur is a city and capital of the district of the same name ( İlçe ) in the province of Kırşehir in Central Anatolia . The place is about 20 km east-southeast of the provincial town of Kırşehir .
geography
The district (İlçe) is located in the southeast of the province. It borders in the west on the central district, in the north on the Boztepe district and in the east and south on the province of Nevşehir . The district and the city are crossed from west to east by the D260 highway , which runs from Polatlı via Kırşehir to Kayseri . To the east of the city, the D765 branches off to Nevşehir in a southerly direction . A country road leaves the place in a northeast direction to Kozaklı in the province of Nevşehir.
In the north of the district lies the largely dried up lake Seyfe Gölü , where there are flamingo colonies. The water of the shallow lake is salty because of the lack of drainage. To the west of the city is the 1657 meter high Hasanpaşa Tepesi , to the east is the Ayrı Dağı mountain range with heights of up to 1550 meters.
Etymology and history
The etymology of the name is unclear. Although the area has been inhabited since ancient times, as archaeological remains show, the sources about Mucur are sparse. Mucur shared the history of Inner Anatolia without being particularly prominent. In the period between 1485 and 1526, the name appears in a spelling that reads "Bucur" or "Bücür", although the reading of the first letter is unclear. In the 16th century, Mucur appears as a large village as a result of an influx from Eastern Anatolia. Conditions subsequently deteriorated. The area became unsafe and the larger villages were fortified with ditches and earth walls, which were then razed by the state authorities on occasion. Such villages were called palanka . Mucur was in the area that has repeatedly been rocked by the riots known as the Celali uprisings . With sources remaining sparse, Mucur experienced growth in the 18th and 19th centuries and became the center of a Kaza , an Ottoman judicial district and later also an administrative district. This is how today's ilçe arose .
Of the little or no researched and often decaying buildings and traces of settlement from ancient times (churches, doors and caves), two underground cities, one in Mucur itself and one in the village of Kepez, are particularly worth mentioning.
district
The district has the third largest population in the province, but its population density (18.9) is just half that of the province (36.7 inhabitants per km²). Over two thirds of the district's population (2018: 69.55%) live in the city. The district also consists of 44 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 130 residents. The scale of the population ranges from 716 ( Kızıldağyeniyapan ) down to 19 ( Yeniköy ). 16 villages have more than 130 inhabitants.
Famous pepole
- Mustafa Bumin , Turkish lawyer
- Osman Bölükbaşı , Turkish politician
- Fatih Özmen , Turkish -American entrepreneur
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 5, 2019
- ↑ Seyfe Lake Drought
- ↑ Information on the website of the administration ( Memento from January 18, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ http://www.mucur.net/turizmi/
