Provinces of Turkey 17 ÇANAKKALE

Çanakkale is the central district of Çanakkale province, located in Northwest Anatolia. The population of Çanakkale province is 541,548. 72.9% of this population live in cities (end of 2020). There are 55 people per km2 in the province. (This number is 181 in the central district.) It is one of the two provinces in Turkey, along with Istanbul, on the Asian and European continents, and therefore has a strait. Its neighboring provinces are Edirne, Tekirdağ and Balıkesir.
Çanakkale was formed in the first years of the Republic with the abolition of the Biga and Gallipoli banners and the declaration of Çanak village, which is in the middle of both, as a province. In the 1927 census, the central population of Çanakkale was only 8,500 people.
In ancient times, it is known that the province, which was also called Hellespontos and Dardanelles, has been inhabited for 3000 years. The ancient city of Troy (Troy, Troy), whose ruins still exist today, was destroyed by a great earthquake in 2500 BC and the region was ruled by the Lydians for many years.
Looking at the entire territory of Çanakkale, the peninsula on which it was founded is called the Biga Peninsula. The most notable elevation in the province is the Biga Mountains. The reason why the name Biga is used so much is that before the Republican period, it was the Biga district of the Sanjak in the Ottoman administrative system. In other words, the old center of the province was Biga, and the name and center of the province was changed to Çanakkale due to the achievements in the Republican period. The origin of the name of the province is based on the very developed pottery craft in the region. When pottery became synonymous with Kale-i Sultaniye, which became two symbols of the city, the city was named Çanakkale.
The current location of Çanakkale was named Kale-i Sultaniye in the 19th century and this name was recorded as the official name of the city in 1890. Çanakkale served as an important castle during the Ottoman period, and the name Kale-i Sultaniye (Ottoman Turkish: قلعة سلطانيه ) or Sultaniye Castle in today's Turkish is a proof of this function.
Çanakkale, which is the 40th province of Turkey in terms of population, has a university today. Transportation from Çanakkale to other cities is provided by highways and air.
Although the climate in Çanakkale has a transitional nature due to the geography of the province, it has predominantly Mediterranean climate characteristics. Baba Cape, the westernmost point of Anatolia, and İncirburnu, the westernmost point of Turkey, are within the provincial borders of Gökçeada. Bozcaada and Gökçeada districts, which are the largest Turkish islands in the Aegean Sea, are also connected to Çanakkale.