In 1878, Kırk Kilise was home to 6500 Bulgarians, 2000 Greeks and 2500 Turks. The city was damaged during the Greek War of Independence. During the Balkan Wars, Kırk Kilise was occupied by Bulgaria, and then by Greece in the aftermath of World War I.
According to the official Ottoman census of 1906/7 (published in "Ottoman Population 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics" by Kemal H. Karpat), the ethnic-religious breakdown of Kirk Kilise in 1914 was:
Muslims 22,022 Greeks 14,154 Bulgarians 1,599 Jews 789.
The city was retaken by the Turks on November 10, 1922. According to the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey, non-Turks here were exchanged for Turks in Greece. Most of the inhabitants of the city are Turks who formerly lived in Thessaloniki until the First Balkan War of 1912.
[edit] The Megleno-Romanians of Kirklarely
In 1923 most of the 3700 inhabitants of Notia, the only moslem village of the Megleno-Romanians in northern Greece, settled in the Edirne area -mainly in Kırklareli- and became known as Karadjovalides[1] after the Turkish name of Moglen.
The number of these megleno-vlachs families settled in Kirklareţi were more than 110, while those settled in small villages around were 400: in total nearly 2000 megleno-romanians. Actually they number only 500, concentrated in Kirklareli and culturally assimilated to the Turks (most of them speak mainly the turkish language, but are still bilingual at home).
source: wikipedia.org
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