Kirklareli

Kirklareli is a city on the European piece of Turkey. Progressing archeological unearthings in the city bolster the case that the region was the area of one of the principal sorted out settlements on the European mainland, with antiquities from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. The settlement and its encompassing regions were vanquished by the Persians in 513– 512 BC, amid the rule of King Darius I. In 914 amid the Bulgarian intrusion in Adrianople driven by Simeon I, the settlement was caught by the Bulgarians and was under Bulgarian guideline until the point when 1003 when it was lost to the Byzantines.

The Ottoman Turks took the city and its district from the Byzantines in 1363, amid the rule of Sultan Murad I. The city was harmed amid the Greek War of Independence 1821– 1829. As indicated by the 1878 record "Ethnography of the Wilayahs Adrianopol, Monastir and Thessaloniki" Kirk Kilise was occupied by 6,700 Bulgarians, 2,850 Greeks, and 2,700 having a place with other ethnic groups. As indicated by the official Ottoman enumeration of 1906– 1907 distributed in "The Ottoman Population 1830– 1914: Demographic and Social Characteristics" by Kemal H. Karpat, the ethnic-religious breakdown in the Sanjak of Kirk Kilise was: 22,022 Muslims; 14,154 Greek Orthodox; 1,599 Bulgarian Orthodox; and 789 Jews.