Yeniköy is a village in the Emirdağ District, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 447 (2021).[2]

Yeniköy
Yeniköy is located in Turkey
Yeniköy
Yeniköy
Location in Turkey
Yeniköy is located in Turkey Aegean
Yeniköy
Yeniköy
Yeniköy (Turkey Aegean)
Coordinates: 39°04′09″N 31°29′42″E / 39.0692°N 31.495°E / 39.0692; 31.495
CountryTurkey
ProvinceAfyonkarahisar
DistrictEmirdağ
Population
 (2021)
447
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

It is a traditional Anatolian village. The head of local government (muhtar) is Abdil Koc (as of 2006).

History

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Memorial sculpture for the Greek people who fled Yenikoy in 1924 and came to Pieria, where their sons and daughters live today.

The village was established by Turkish emigrants from the Republic of Nagorno-Karabagh; they emigrated in the Ottoman Empire time and lived first in Davulga. After movings Sons of Alhan to valley of Yenikoy. Became yenikoy as a town.

Yenikoy was home to many Greek people in the 1920s. In 1924 following the dramatic events in the War of Asia Minor, the Greek people fled their village and came to stay in Kondariotissa, a town in Pieria in northern Greece. A memorial sculpture has been erected in the square of the Kondariotissa village, to commemorate the immigration of Greeks from Yenikoy (Νεοχώρι Χηλής in Greek) to Kondariotissa.

It is notable that although more than 80 years have gone by since the immigration, a lot of people from Kondariotissa visit Yenikoy and are welcomed with the friendship and hospitability of the residents and the local authorities of the Turkish town. [citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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