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Darıca district
Sign in to saveDarıca (, from the Byzantine τὰ Ῥίτζιον) is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. The town was previously known as Aretsou (Αρετσού) by its native Greek population. Its area is 23 km2, and its population is 225,602 (2022). The current mayor is Muzaffer Bıyık.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Darıca
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Bayramoglu.JPG
- Turkey place.image_map
- Kocaeli location Darıca.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Darıca District in Kocaeli Province
- Turkey place.province
- Kocaeli
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Muzaffer Bıyık
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 23
- Turkey place.population_total
- 225602
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 41700
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0262
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Darıca (, from the Byzantine τὰ Ῥίτζιον) is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. The town was previously known as Aretsou (Αρετσού) by its native Greek population. Its area is 23 km2, and its population is 225,602 (2022). The current mayor is Muzaffer Bıyık.
== History == Though Greek settlement around the Sea of Marmara dates to the first millennium BCE, the earliest reference to the Byzantine fortress of Ritzion (τὰ Ῥίτζιον) is in the works of the 12th-century historian John Kinnamos. The ruins of the fortress, which gives the town its modern name, are still located in present-day Darıca.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Darıca district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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