Çekmece
Çekmece is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Defne, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 40,226. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 27,100 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Defne, Hatay, Turkey
- Also known as: “Hidirbey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Habib-i Nejjar Mosque and Mosque in Antakya, Hatay.
Habib-i Nejjar Mosque
Mosque
Photo: GrandEscogriffe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Habib-i Nejjar Mosque is a historical mosque in Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey named after Habib the Carpenter. The mosque is to the east of Orontes River. The mosque was severely damaged by earthquakes in February 2023. Habib-i Nejjar Mosque is situated 3 km east of Çekmece.
Mosque in Antakya, Hatay
Mosque
Photo: Ahmet KAYNARPUNAR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mosque in Antakya, Hatay is situated 3 km east of Çekmece.
Sarımiye Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sarımiye Mosque is situated 3 km east of Çekmece.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Antakya and Koçören.
Antakya
Photo: Volkanh, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Antakya, also known as Antioch, or more specifically Antioch-on-the-Orontes, is the capital of Hatay Province, which was annexed by Turkey after almost two decades of French rule in 1939.
Koçören
Village
Koçören is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Defne, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,013. Koçören is situated 3½ km southwest of Çekmece.
Küçükdalyan
Suburb
Küçükdalyan is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 10,600. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. Küçükdalyan is situated 4 km east of Çekmece.
Çekmece
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Defne, Hatay, Mediterranean Turkey, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.20661° or 36° 12′ 24″ northLongitude
36.13033° or 36° 7′ 49″ eastPopulation
27,100Elevation
125 metres (410 feet)Open location code
8G8R644J+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 8097170576OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
312156Wikidata ID
Q6479485
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Çekmece” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جكمجة”
- Basque: “Çekmece”
- Catalan: “Çekmece”
- Cebuano: “Çekmece”
- Chechen: “Чекмедже”
- Czech: “Çekmece”
- Danish: “Çekmece”
- Dutch: “Çekmece”
- Finnish: “Çekmece”
- Gagauz: “Çekmece”
- Galician: “Çekmece”
- German: “Çekmece”
- Irish: “Çekmece”
- Italian: “Çekmece”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Çekmece”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Çekmece”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Çekmece”
- Polish: “Çekmece”
- Portuguese: “Çekmece”
- Romanian: “Çekmece”
- Scots: “Çekmece”
- Slovak: “Çekmece”
- Slovenian: “Çekmece”
- Spanish: “Çekmece”
- Swedish: “Çekmece”
- Tagalog: “Çekmece”
- Tatar: “Чекмеҗе”
- Turkish: “Çekmece, Antakya”
- Turkish: “Çekmece, Defne”
- Turkish: “Çekmece”
- Turkish: “Hıdırbey”
- Uzbek: “Çekmece”
- Vietnamese: “Çekmece, Defne”
- Vietnamese: “Çekmece”
- Waray (Philippines): “Çekmece”
- “Çekmece”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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