Şenköy
Sign in to saveŞenköy is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Yayladağı, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 875 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). Also in 2013, it passed from the former central district of Hatay to the district of Yayladağı.
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- Population
- 1320
- Elevation
- 680
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- Turkey neighborhood ID
- 149243
- male population
- 439
- female population
- 433
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Şenköy is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Yayladağı, Hatay Province, Turkey. Its population is 875 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). Also in 2013, it passed from the former central district of Hatay to the district of Yayladağı.
Şenköy is south of Antakya (administrative center of Hatay) on the way to Yayladağı. The former name of Şenköy was Şeyhköy (village of sheik) referring to Sheik Ahmet Kuseyri who lived in the 16th century. According to nonconfirmed claims the sheik had been presented to Suleyman I (also known as Suleyman the Magnificent) and was given a zeamet (a kind of fief). The tomb of the sheik is next to the mosque built in the 16th century. After his death in 1549, his tomb became a pilgrimage center.
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