İnecik, Tekirdağ

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İnecik
İnecik is located in Turkey
İnecik
İnecik
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 40°59′N 27°31′E / 40.983°N 27.517°E / 40.983; 27.517Coordinates: 40°59′N 27°31′E / 40.983°N 27.517°E / 40.983; 27.517
Country Turkey
ProvinceTekirdağ Province
İlçe (district)Süleymanpaşa
Population
 (2000)
 • Urban
2,125
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
59000
Area code(s)0282
Licence plate59

İnecik is a district in the municipality of Süleymanpaşa, in Tekirdağ Province in European Turkey. Its Ottoman-era name was Aynadjik, and its Byzantine-era name was Chalcis (Greek: Χαλκίς).

History[]

On account of its location, it is possible that the town is to be identified with the way-station (mutatio) of , listed in the late Roman Itinerarium Burdigalense.[1]

Chalcis is first attested as a bishopric in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which was attended by its iconophile bishop, Sissinios.[1] Another bishop, named Demetrios, is attested through a lead seal dating to the 8th or 9th centuries, and in the 9th century a droungarios named Staurakios or Theophylact.[1] However, the see does not appear in the Notitiae Episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Constantinople until the reign of Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912).[1]

In 1051, a Pecheneg invasion was defeated near the town.[1] In the Partitio Romaniae, the town is listed as part of an episkepsis along with Rhaidestos and Panion.[1]

In Ottoman times, the settlement was named Aynadjik (Αϊναρτζίκ for the local Greek population), and was visited by the traveller Evliya Celebi, who described it as lying in a wide and fruitful plain with tile-roofed houses. Kara Piri Pasha made several donations there.[1] In c. 1839, the local agriculture is reported as following a two-year cycle of cultivation followed by pasture.[1] The village remained predominantly Greek-populated until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923; on its eve, in 1922, there were 1,092 Greeks.[1]

Monuments[]

The town's old mosque (Eski Camii) features four Byzantine-era columns, and its forecourt and garden feature other early and middle Byzantine-era architectural fragments.[1]

Titular see[]

The diocese of Chalcis was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular see (Chalcis in Europa) by the Roman Catholic Church, but has remained vacant since.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Külzer 2008, p. 307.
  2. ^ "Titular Episcopal See of Chalcis in Europa". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 26 October 2018.

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