Merkezefendi

Merkezefendi
İlçe (district)
Merkezefendi Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°47′N 29°06′E / 37.783°N 29.100°E / 37.783; 29.100Coordinates: 37°47′N 29°06′E / 37.783°N 29.100°E / 37.783; 29.100
Country	Turkey
Province	Denizli Province
Elevation	530 m (1,740 ft)
Population  (2013)
• Urban	262,825[1]
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	20000
Area code(s)	0258
Licence plate	20

Merkezefendi is a new intracity district and second level municipality in Denizli Province, Turkey. According to Law act no 6360, all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750000, were declared metropolitan municipality. The law also created new districts within the capital city which have second level municipalities in addition the metropolitan municipality.^[2] Merkezefendi is one of them.

Thus after 2014 a part of Denizli central district was named Merkezefendi and the name Denizli was reserved for the metropolitan municipality. (Merkez Efendi was the name of a 16th-century Sufi )

Sport[]

Merkezefendi Belediyesi Denizli Basket represents Merkezefendi and Denizli in Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL).

Rural area[]

There were two towns and six villages in the rural area of Merkezefendi. Now their official status became "neighborhood of Merkezefendi"

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See also[]

• Merkez Efendi
•  Turkey portal

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