Melikgazi is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. 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.Kanun No. 3508, Resmî Gazete, 14 December 1998. 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:Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
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 İldem 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 )
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