Süleymanpaşa
Süleymanpaşa is a planned district and second level municipality in Tekirdağ Province, Turkey. According to the 2012 Metropolitan Municipalities Law, all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750 000, will be 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. These changes will be effective by the local elections in 2014.
Thus, after 2014, the present Tekirdağ central district will be named Süleymanpaşa, and the name Tekirdağ will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality. The name Süleymanpaşa refers to the Ottoman prince Süleyman, the first commander of Turkish troops in Thrace in the 14th century.There were four towns and 55 villages in the rural area of Süleymanpaşa district. Now their official status became "neighborhood of Süleymanpaşa".
