Çakıllı (former ''Erenler'' and ''Çakalondon'') is a town (''
belde'') in the
Vize District,
Kırklareli Province
Kırklareli Province ( tr, ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in northwestern Turkey on the west coast of the Black Sea. The province neighbours Bulgaria to the north along a long border. It borders the province of Edirne to the west and the ...
,
Turkey. Its population is 1,981 (2022).
The town is situated on Turkish state highway
D.020 which connects İstanbul to Kırklareli. Distance to Vize is and to Kırklareli is . The earliest inhabitants around Çakıllı were
Thracians of the ancient ages. In
Middle Ages it was a part of the
Byzantine and
Ottoman Empires. Turkish traveller
Evliya Çelebi described the settlement as a settlement where Turks and Greeks lived together in the 17th century. After the
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
The Russo-Turkish wars (or Ottoman–Russian wars) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries. It was one of the longest series of military conflicts in European histor ...
Turkish refugees from
Bulgaria were also settled in Çakıllı. Çakıllı was declared a seat of township in 1969.
Mayor's page
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References
Town municipalities in Turkey
Populated places in Vize District
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