title: Melikgazi
text: Melikgazi, in Byzantine times known as Tzamandos, is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 668 km2, and its population is 594,344 (2022). It covers the southern and eastern part of the agglomeration of Kayseri and the adjacent countryside.
  
  History
  The town was originally a border fortress built by the famous Armenian general Melias around the year 909/910.
  In 1065, the town was given among other lands in the region to the last Bagratuni king Gagik II as exchange for him renouncing the kingdom of Armenia. 
  
  Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan was born in Melikgazi, in the town of Ağırnas around 1488.
  
  Political structure
  The district Melikgazi was created in 1998 from part of the former central district of Kayseri, along with the district Kocasinan. At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods. The mayor is Mustafa Palancıoğlu (AKP).
  
  Composition
  There are 57 neighbourhoods in Melikgazi District:
  
   19 Mayıs
   30 Ağustos
   Ağırnas
   Alpaslan
   Altınoluk
   Anafartalar
   Anbar
   Aydınlıkevler
   Bağpınar
   Bahçelievler
   Battalgazi
   Becen
   Büyük Bürüngüz
   Cumhuriyet
   Danişmentgazi
   Demokrasi
   Eğribucak
   Erenköy
   Esentepe
   Esenyurt
   Fatih
   Germir
   Gesi Fatih
   Gökkent
   Gültepe
   Gülük
   Gürpınar
   Güzelköy
   Hisarcık
   Hunat
   Hürriyet
   İldem Cumhuriyet
   Kayabağ
   Kazımkarabekir
   Keykubat
   Kılıçaslan
   Kıranardı
   Kocatepe
   Köşk
   Küçükbürüngüz
   Mimarsinan
   Osman Kavuncu
   Osmanlı
   Sakarya
   Sarımsaklı
   Selçuklu
   Selimiye
   Şirintepe
   Subaşı
   Tacettin Veli
   Tavlusun
   Tınaztepe
   Turan
   Vekse 
   Yeniköy
   Yeşilyurt
   Yıldırım Beyazıt
  
  References
  
   
  Districts of Kayseri Province
  Populated places in Kayseri Province
  Former Armenian inhabited settlements
  Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey