Saray (Tekirdağ)
Saray | ||||
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Ayas Paşa Mosque in the Saray district |
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Basic data | ||||
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Province (il) : | Tekirdağ | |||
Coordinates : | 41 ° 27 ' N , 27 ° 55' E | |||
Height : | 162 m | |||
Residents : | 22,315 (2010) | |||
Telephone code : | (+90) 282 | |||
Postal code : | 59600 | |||
License plate : | 59 | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2011) | ||||
Mayor : | Nazmi Çoban ( CHP ) | |||
Website: | ||||
Saray County | ||||
Residents : | 46,351 (2010) | |||
Surface: | 1,185 km² | |||
Population density : | 39 inhabitants per km² | |||
Kaymakam : | Gülihsan Yiğit | |||
Website (Kaymakam): |
Saray is a district town and a district in the north of the Turkish province of Tekirdağ in Eastern Thrace . Saray has 22,315 and the district 46,351 inhabitants (2010). There are 19 villages in the district .
The district borders with a small part in the north on the Black Sea . In the west and east it borders on the provinces of Kırklareli and Istanbul .
The name Saray means castle in German and refers to the residence of the Tatar rulers of the Crimean Khanate . After the Russian conquest of Crimea, they found asylum in the Ottoman Empire and were settled in Thrace.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 11, 2011