Menteşe

Menteşe is a planned district and second level municipality in Muğla Province, Turkey. According to the 2012 Metropolitan Municipalities Law (law no. 6360), all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750000 will become metropolitan municipalities and the districts within the metropolitan municipalities will be second level municipalities. The law also creates new districts within the provinces in addition to present districts. These changes will be effective by the local elections in 2014.

Thus after 2014 the present Muğla central district will be named Menteşe and the name Muğla will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality. (Menteşe was the name of a 14th-century beylik in and around Muğla Province.)

Rural area

There were four towns and 48 villages in the rural area of Menteşe. Now their official became "neighborhood of Menteşe".

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Menteşe (disambiguation)

Menteşe is the planned new name of the central district of Muğla Province, Turkey, effective 2014.

Menteşe may also refer to:

Menteşe (beylik)

The Anatolian beylik of Menteş (1260–1424), with capital in Milas in southwest Anatolia and headquartered in Beçin castle near that city, was one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum. The Beylik was named after its founder, Menteş Bey. It had come into existence by the year 1290. The beylik's core territory corresponded roughly to ancient Caria or the later Muğla Province in Turkey, including the province's three protruding peninsulas.

Among important centers of the Beylik were the cities of Beçin, Milas, Balat, Elmali, Finike, Kaş, Mağrı (Fethiye after 1911), Muğla, Çameli, Acıpayam, Tavas, Bozdoğan and Çine. The city of Aydın (formerly Tralles) was controlled by this Beylik for a time and was named Güzelhisar under the Menteşe. They later transferred it to their northern neighbors of Aydinids who renamed the city after the founder of their dynasty. Menteş Beys were a serious regional naval power of their time. They also left important works of architecture such as the Firuz Bey Mosque in Milas and İlyas Bey Mosque in Balat.