Polatlı

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Polatlı formerly Polad is a town and district of the Turkish province of Ankara. The 3465 km ² large district located in the southwest of the province and borders the provinces of Eskişehir and Konya.

Etymology and history

The name comes from Polatlı Turkmen tribes who settled here in the 16th century. The tribal name itself is Persian and means strong or iron. In Ottoman records also have variants Polatlu and Polat Luca emerge.

In antiquity, the area belonged to Phrygia. About 10 km northwest of the city Polatlı is the ancient city of Gordion. The town was for several centuries under Ottoman rule. During the Turkish War of 1919-1922, the important battle on the Sakarya between Turks and Greeks took place near Polatlıs. After the founding of the Republic in 1923, the city was in 1926 the status of a Belediye.

Resident

1907 was one of the Vilayet Ankara 344 019 19,531 Muslim and non-Muslim inhabitants. After the Turkish War and the population exchange between Turkey and Greece and the Greeks of Ankara were exchanged for Turks from Greece. In a census in March 1927 lived in Polatlı 10,838 Turks, 2,557 Tatars, Kurds 742 and 312 Bosniaks. Today, the district has 82 villages Polatlı.