Cerkezkoy

Cerkezkoy is a town and area of Tekirdag Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey. Until the 1800s this was a town called 'Turbedere'. 'Turbe' is the Turkish for 'tomb' and the town took its name from the tomb of the oldest child of sultan Bayezid I, Suleyman Celebi, who was killed here in 1410 while escaping from his siblings amid the Ottoman Interregnum. The tomb was annihilated by Bulgarian troops when they involved the town for nine months amid the war for Bulgarian Independence in 1912.

Cerkezkoy was established as a settlement for outcasts from the Caucasus following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Before long, after the autonomy of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire additionally rushes of exiles from Bulgaria came to supplant the Caucasians and Cerkezkoy was assigned as a region in 1911. It turned into a township of Saray locale in 1922 and a region in 1938.

The land here is level, watered by the River Corlu and great soil for cultivating, so until the 1970s Cerkezkoy was a lovely residential area in a rustic setting. Be that as it may, it is additionally on the primary thruway from Istanbul to Europe and in 1971 was assigned a zone for modern advancement. Stipends were made accessible by the Turkish state for speculators and a vast modern region was built on 4 km2 of land close to the town.