Turkey
Kayseri Province
Kocasinan

Melikgazi

Melikgazi is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 668 km2, and its population is 594,344. It covers the southern and eastern part of the agglomeration of and the adjacent countryside.
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  • Type: Town with 556,000 residents
  • Description: district of Kayseri, central Turkey
  • Also known as: “Melikgazi district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Köşkmedrese and Döner Kümbet.

Historic building
is a khanqah located on Mount Köşk to the southeast of the city of in central . According to the inscriptions on the building that ceased to exist, it was built by Eretna in memory of his consort Suli Pasha in 1339.

Public building
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a public building.

Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kayseri and Talas.

Photo: GMM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , 350 km southeast of Ankara. In 2021 the population was 1.2 million. is a sprawling industrial city, with a mixture of trades such as furniture, and has a university.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 444 km2, and its population is 169,214. It is located about 7 km from the city of Kayseri and has evolved from an independent town to a satellite city of . is situated 5 km southeast of Melikgazi.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 187 km2, and its population is 12,465. The mayor is Bilal Özdoğan. is situated 10 km southwest of Melikgazi.

Melikgazi

Latitude
38.71991° or 38° 43′ 12″ north
Longitude
35.50566° or 35° 30′ 20″ east
Population
556,000
Elevation
1,045 metres (3,428 feet)
Open location code
8GCQPG94+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 965861111
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
318580
Wiki­data ID
Q2670975
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Melikgazi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ملك غازي”
  • Asturian: “Melikgazi (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Melikgazi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məlikqazi”
  • Cebuano: “Melikgazi”
  • Chechen: “Меликгази”
  • Chinese: “Melikgazi”
  • Chinese: “萨曼多斯”
  • Chinese: “薩曼多斯”
  • Chinese: “馬利克加齊”
  • Dutch: “Melikgazi (district)”
  • Dutch: “Melikgazi”
  • French: “Melikgazi”
  • German: “Melikgazi”
  • Irish: “Melikgazi”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Melikgazi”
  • Malay: “Melikgazi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Melikgazi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melikgazi”
  • Norwegian: “Melikgazi”
  • Persian: “ملک‌غازی”
  • Russian: “Меликгази”
  • Serbian: “Меликгази”
  • Swahili: “Melikgazi”
  • Tatar: “Меликгази”
  • Turkish: “Melikgazi,Kayseri”
  • Turkish: “Melikgazi”
  • Urdu: “ملک غازی”
  • Vietnamese: “Melikgazi”
  • Western Mari: “Меликгази”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ملکغازی”
  • “Melikgazi ilçesi”

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