Pınarhisar

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Pınarhisar ( Bulgarian Бунархисар / Bunarhisar ) is the name of a district town and a district in the Turkish province of Kırklareli in Eastern Thrace. Pınarhisar has 10,463 and the county of 19,582 inhabitants ( 2010). Pınarhisar is centrally located in the province.

Pinarhisar was a Bulgarian town until the Second Balkan War in 1913, when the Bulgarian population was expelled in trains the reconquest Ostthrakiens by the Turks (→ Thracian Bulgarians ). 150 displaced families settled in what is now Achtopol, 100 in Ajtos, 57 in Banewo, 23 in Wesselie and other places established in Bulgaria.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Mehmet Leblebi (1908-1972), Turkish football players, functionary and Sprinter