Tekirdag

Tekirdag is a city in Turkey. It is a piece of the district generally known as Eastern Thrace. Tekirdag is the capital of Tekirdag Province. The city populace starting at 2016 is 176,848. There are privileged offices of Hungary and Bulgaria in Tekirdag. The history of the city of Tekirdag goes back to around 4000 BC. In Xenophon's Anabasis it is made reference to be a piece of the kingdom of the Thracian ruler Seuthes. It is additionally made reference to as Bisanthe by Herodotus. Its reclamation by Justinian I in the sixth century AD is chronicled by Procopius.

In 813 and again in 1206, after the Battle of Rodosto, it was sacked by the Bulgarians, however it kept on showing up as a position of significant note in later Byzantine history. It was likewise led by the Venetians somewhere in the range of 1204 and 1235. The 11th century Byzantine history specialist Michael Attaleiates possessed property in Raidestos which he portrays in his will. In the Ottoman time frame the city was progressively a piece of the Rumelia Eyalet, at that point of the Province of the Kapudan Pasha, the Silistra Eyalet, and Edirne Vilayet.

After 1849 it was the seat of the Sanjak of Tekfurtagi. In 1905, the city had a populace of around 35,000; of whom half were Greeks who were traded with Muslims living in Greece under the 1923 assention for Exchange of Greek Orthodox and Muslim Populations between the two countries. In 1912, after the thrashing at the Battle of Lule Burgas the withdrawing Turkish armed force set flames on a few sections of the town and slaughtered numerous Christians. Indeed, even youngsters were tossed to the blazes.