İnecik, Tekirdağ

Neighbourhood in Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ, Turkey

İnecik

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Coordinates: 40°56′07″N 27°16′52″E﻿ / ﻿40.93528°N 27.28111°E﻿ / 40.93528; 27.28111
Country| Turkey
Province| Tekirdağ
District| Süleymanpaşa
Population

(2022)

| 586
Time zone| UTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code|

59070

Area code| 0282

İnecik is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 586 (2022).[2] Its Ottoman-era name was Aynadjik, and its Byzantine-era name was Chalcis (Greek: Χαλκίς).

## History

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On account of its location, it is possible that the town is to be identified with the way-station (mutatio) of Bedizum, listed in the late Roman Itinerarium Burdigalense,[3] and/or the station Bitenas.[4]

Chalcis is first attested as a bishopric in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which was attended by its iconophile bishop, Sissinios.[3] 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.[3] 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).[3]

In 1051, a Pecheneg invasion was defeated near the town.[3] In the Partitio Romaniae, the town is listed as part of an episkepsis along with Rhaidestos and Panion.[3]

In Ottoman times, the settlement was named Aynadjik (Αϊναρτζίκ for the local Greek population), and was visited by the traveller Evliya Çelebi, who described it as lying in a wide and fruitful plain with tile-roofed houses. Kara Piri Pasha made several donations there.[3] In c. 1839, the local agriculture is reported as following a two-year cycle of cultivation followed by pasture.[3] 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.[3]

## Monuments

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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.[3]

## Titular see

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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.[5]

## References

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1. ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
2. ^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Külzer 2008, p. 307.
4. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
5. ^ "Titular Episcopal See of Chalcis in Europa". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 26 October 2018.

## Sources

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* Külzer, Andreas (2008). Tabula Imperii Byzantini: Band 12, Ostthrakien (Eurōpē) (in German). Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-3945-4.

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