Büyükmandıra

Büyükmandıra
Büyükmandıra
	Town
	Büyükmandıra Location in Turkey
	Coordinates: 41°21′N 27°06′E
Country	Turkey
Province	Kırklareli Province
District	Babaeski
Elevation	40 m (130 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	3,688
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	39580
Area code(s)	0288
Licence plate	39

Büyükmandıra (or Mandıra for short) is a belde (town) town in Babaeski district of Kırklareli Province, Turkey. At 41°21′N 27°06′E, the distance to Babaeski is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) and the distance to Kırklareli is 50 kilometres (31 mi). The population of the town is 3688[1] as of 2011. Up to 1877 there was an Ottoman royal farm in place of the town. But during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) Muslim people from Bulgaria (Pomaks and Turks) who escaped from the Russian armies were settled in the farm to form the core of the town. According to the mayor's page, a well known wrestler named Kavasoğlu İbrahim arranged this allocation.[2] The settlement was declared a seat of township in 1955. The name of the town means "great dairy" and it refers to the main activity of town residents.

References

"Turkstat". Turkish Statistical Institute. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
Mayor's page (in Turkish) Archived September 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "Turkstat". Turkish Statistical Institute. Archived from the original on 2014-05-29. Retrieved 6 April 2012.

[2] Mayor's page (in Turkish) Archived September 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine