Melikgazi

Melikgazi is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 668 km², and its population is 594,344 (2022). It covers the southern and eastern part of the agglomeration of Kayseri and the adjacent countryside.

Political structure

The district Melikgazi was created in 1998 from part of the former central district of Kayseri, along with the district Kocasinan. At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods. The mayor is Mustafa Palancıoğlu (AKP).

Composition

There are 57 neighbourhoods in Melikgazi District:

• 19 Mayıs
• 30 Ağustos
• Ağırnas
• Alpaslan
• Altınoluk
• Anafartalar
• Anbar
• Aydınlıkevler
• Bağpınar
• Bahçelievler
• Battalgazi
• Becen
• Büyük Bürüngüz
• Cumhuriyet
• Danişmentgazi
• Demokrasi
• Eğribucak
• Erenköy
• Esentepe
• Esenyurt
• Fatih
• Germir
• Gesi Fatih
• Gökkent
• Gültepe
• Gülük
• Gürpınar
• Güzelköy
• Hisarcık
• Hunat
• Hürriyet
• Ä°ldem Cumhuriyet
• Kayabağ
• Kazımkarabekir
• Keykubrat
• Kılıçaslan
• Kıranardı
• Kocatepe
• Köşk
• Küçükbürüngüz
• Mimarsinan
• Osman Kavuncu
• Osmanlı
• Sakarya
• Sarımsaklı
• Selçuklu
• Selimiye
• Şirintepe
• Subaşı
• Tacettin Veli
• Tavlusun
• Tınaztepe
• Turan
• Vekse
• Yeniköy
• Yeşilyurt
• Yıldırım Beyazıt

Notable citizens

• Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (born around 1488 in Ağırnas )

References