Saray

Saray is a town and locale of Tekirdag Province at the European piece of Turkey. The number of inhabitants in the town is 24,960 while in the locale a sum of 47,522 individuals live as of 2014. It spreads a territory of 612 km2, and the height is 140 m. The region has cool wet winters and sweltering dry summers. The area senator is Huseyin ONER, and the leader is Nazmi Coban. Saray is arranged on the intersection of state streets D-020 and D-567.

It is neighboured in the north by Vize, in the east by Catalca, in the south by Kapakli and in the west by Ergene. Thrace has been made due with a long, long time and relics have been found in Saray from the stone-age and the copper-stone periods, however up until the Ottoman time frame there were just little towns here. At that point when the Ottomans built up their capital in close-by Edirne, the town started to develop.

In the 18th century when the Crimean Khanate tumbled to the Russians, the Giray group of the decision Khans, relatives of Genghis Khan himself, were settled here by the Ottoman sultans. Numerous individuals from the administration are covered at the yard of Ayas Pasha Mosque in Saray. It was progressively part of sanjaks of Vize, Tekfurdagi and Kirkkilise and was a nahiyah of Vize township in Kirkkilise sanjak before 1922. Saray was involved by Greek troops for a long time amid the Turkish War of Independence somewhere in the range of 1920 and 1922. Saray turned into a region in 1922 and limited to Tekirdag.