Onikişubat is a district and second level municipality in

Kahramanmaraş Province Kahramanmaraş Province kurdish( tr, Kahramanmaraş ili ) is a province of Turkey. Its provincial capital is the city of Kahramanmaraş, the traffic code is 46. Geography Kahramanmaraş is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. According to Law No 6360, any Turkish province with a population of more than 750,000 is classed as a metropolitan municipality, and the districts within the metropolitan municipalities will be second-level municipalities. The law also creates new districts within the provinces in addition to present districts.Official gazette
/ref> These changes will be effective by the local elections in 2014. Thus after 2014 the present Kahramanmaraş central district was split into two. The western part was named ''Onikişubat'' and the name Kahramanmaraş will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality. ("Onikişubat" or 12 February refers to the date of recovery of Kahramanmaraş during the

Turkish War of Independence The Turkish War of Independence "War of Liberation", also known figuratively as ''İstiklâl Harbi'' "Independence War" or ''Millî Mücadele'' "National Struggle" (19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923) was a series of military campaigns waged by th ...

in 1920.)

Rural area

There are 10 towns and 71 villages in the rural area of the district. Now their official status became "neighborhood of Onikişubat".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Onikisubat Districts of Kahramanmaraş Province Kahramanmaraş