Pinarhisar

Pinarhisar
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Kırklareli
Coordinates :	41 ° 38 ′  N , 27 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 37 ′ 41 ″  N , 27 ° 30 ′ 44 ″  E
Height :	189  m
Residents :	10,722 (2018)
Telephone code :	(+90) 288
Postal code :	39 300
License plate :	39
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure :	4 malls
Mayor :	İhsan Talay ( AKP )
Website:	www.pinarhisar.bel.tr
Pinarhisar County
Residents :	18,375 (2018)
Surface:	518 km²
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Murat Eren
Website (Kaymakam):	www.pinarhisar.gov.tr

Pınarhisar ( Bulgarian Бунархисар / Bunarhisar ) is a district town and a district in the Turkish province of Kırklareli in Eastern Thrace . Pınarhisar is centrally located in the province, about 28 km southeast of the provincial capital . The city has a small airport and is on the D020 and D565 highways. According to the city seal, Pınarhisar received the status of a community ( Belediye ) in 1909 .

geography

The district was spun off on March 1, 1953 from the south-eastern part of the central district ( Merkez ) Kırklareli and borders on this in the west, on the Demirköy district in the north, on the Vize district in the east and on the Lüleburgaz district in the south . The population density (35.5) is below the provincial average of 55.9 inhabitants per km². In addition to the district town (the fifth largest city in the province) there is another Belediye (municipality): Kaynarca with 2,214 inhabitants. There are also 14 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 389 inhabitants. The population ranges from 773 ( Cevizköy ) to 69 ( Akören ), five villages have more than 389 inhabitants.

history

Pinarhisar was a small town with a Bulgarian character 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 ). 150 displaced families settled in present-day Ahtopol , 100 in Aytos , 57 in Banewo , 23 in Wesselie and other places in Bulgaria.

sons and daughters of the town

• Mehmet Leblebi (1908–1972), Turkish football player, official and sprinter

Web links

• Circle page on Facebook
• Trakynet information about the East Thracian provinces

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 4, 2019
2. ^ Stojan Rajtschewski: Eastern Thrace. Ethnic composition and emigration in the XV-ХХ centuries (from the Bulgarian Източна Тракия. История, етноси, преселения XV-ХХ век ), Sofia, 2002, pp 206–207, pp 246–247 and p. 252.