Corlu

Corlu is a northwestern Turkish city in inland Eastern Thrace that falls under the organization of the Province of Tekirdag. It is a quickly creating modern focus based on flatland situated on the roadway D-100 and off the motorway E80 among Istanbul and Turkey's fringe with Greece and Bulgaria. Bronze Age relics have been found in different territories of Thrace including Corlu and by 1000 BC the region was a Phrygian-Greek state named Tzirallum, Tzirallun, or Tzirallon. The region was along these lines controlled by Greeks, Persians, Romans and the Byzantines.

Amid Roman and Byzantine occasions, the town was alluded to as Tzouroulos, or Syrallo. The spelling "Zorolus" is utilized for the Latinized type of the name of the episcopal see related to introduce day Corlu in the Catholic Church's rundown of main sees. Some authors have distinguished the Roman town of Caenophrurium with Corlu, however this appears to be improbable as the Antonine Itinerary records Cenofrurium as two phases and 36 miles closer to Byzantium than Tzirallum, and the Tabula Peutingeriana demonstrates the areas separately.

There were vital Roman and Byzantine strongholds at Caenophrurium, which was a base for controlling vast territories of Thrace. Following a wild early history, Corlu was brought under Ottoman control by Sultan Murad I, who instantly requested the obliteration of the Roman dividers as a feature of a strategy of opening up the town under Pax Ottomana. In the Ottoman time frame, the town remained an essential arranging post out and about from Istanbul to Greece.