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Dinek

mahalle (administrative quarter) in Mihalıççık, Eskişehir, west-central Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ5278037 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dinek is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Mihalıççık, Eskişehir Province, Turkey. Its population is 195 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). It is situated to the south of Sarıyar and Gökçekaya dam reservoirs. The distance to Mihalıçcık is 23 kilometres (14 mi). The town has lost a considerable portion of its population because of migration to cities. According to mayor's page the origin of the town people were the Chepni tribe of Turkmens who had migrated from Greater Khorasan in the 15th century.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dinek” is mahalle (administrative quarter) in Mihalıççık, Eskişehir, west-central Turkey. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dinek, mahalle and administrative, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dinek, mahalle and administrative is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “mahalle (administrative quarter) in Mihalıççık, Eskişehir, west-central Turkey” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5278037. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dinek” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.