İnecik, Tekirdağ

İnecik is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ Province, Turkey.

On account of its location, it is possible that the town is to be identified with the way-station (mutatio) of Bedizum, listed in the late Roman Itinerarium Burdigalense,[3] and/or the station Bitenas.

[4] Chalcis is first attested as a bishopric in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which was attended by its iconophile bishop, Sissinios.

[3] In Ottoman times, the settlement was named Aynadjik (Αϊναρτζίκ for the local Greek population), and was visited by the traveller Evliya Çelebi, who described it as lying in a wide and fruitful plain with tile-roofed houses.

[3] The village remained predominantly Greek-populated until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923; on its eve, in 1922, there were 1,092 Greeks.