Çatalca
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| Çatalca, Istanbul | |
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| Province | Istanbul |
| Area | 1,715 km² |
| Population (2000) | 125,000 |
| Density | 73 pop/km² |
| Mayor | İsmail İp |
| Web | Çatalca Municipality |
| Kaimakam | Yüksel Ayhan |
| web | catalca.gov.tr |
Çatalca is a district of Istanbul Province. It is rural, farmland and forest, in Thrace, on the ridge between the Marmara and the Black Sea. Most people living in Çatalca are either farmers or people with holiday homes there. Many families from the city come to Çatalca during weekends to hike in the forests or to have picnics.
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[edit] History
Rural area, farmland providing food and dairy produce for the city. Settled throughout the Ottoman period, with the typical Ottoman mixed population of Greeks and Turks. The Crimean War caused a mass exodus of Crimean Tatars towards the Ottoman lands. A few of Crimean Tatars settled in Çatalca.
[edit] Population
As a census 22 ,November 2000 population is 81,589.Increasing of people percent is 0,66%.Percent literacy is 99%.
[edit] Geography
Area which it has is 1,175 km² and coastline long is 135 km.Far away from center of province is 55 km.Its neighbor are on the southern Büyükçekmece ,on the west Silivri and Tekirdağ ,on the eastern Avcılar,Küçükçekmece and gaziosmanpaşa. Fresh water for people of Istanbul is provided from Durusu lake and Büyükçekmece lake.
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 Çatalca in Istanbul Province (in the Marmara region) of Turkey |
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| Urban districts | Istanbul - (Avcılar - Bağcılar - Bahçelievler - Bakırköy - Bayrampaşa - Beşiktaş - Beyoğlu - Beykoz - Eminönü - Eyüp - Esenler - Fatih - Gaziosmanpaşa - Güngören - Kadıköy - Kağıthane - Kartal - Küçükçekmece - Maltepe - Pendik - Sarıyer - Şişli - Ümraniye - Üsküdar - Zeytinburnu) |    |
| Rural districts | Adalar - Büyükçekmece - Çatalca - Silivri - Sultanbeyli - Şile - Tuzla | |
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| Aegean | ||
| Black Sea | ||
| Central Anatolia | ||
| Eastern Anatolia | ||
| Marmara | ||
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