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{{Infobox Turkey place
| type                 = neighbourhood
| province             = Tekirdağ
| district             = Şarköy
| name                 = Mürefte
| population_total     = 2412
| population_as_of     = 2022
| coordinates          = {{coord|40|40|N|27|15|E|display=it|region:TR_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}
| image_skyline        = Mürefte3.jpg
| image_caption        = Street of Mürefte
}} 
'''Mürefte''' is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of [[Şarköy]], [[Tekirdağ Province]], [[Turkey]].<ref>[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.</ref> Its population is 2,412 (2022).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports|url=https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/medas/?kn=95&locale=en |access-date=19 September 2023|publisher=[[TÜİK]]|language=en|format=XLS}}</ref> Before the [[2013 Turkish local government reorganisation|2013 reorganisation]], it was a town (''[[belde]]'').<ref name=law6360>{{Cite web |title=Law No. 6360|url=https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2012/12/20121206-1.htm |date=6 December 2012 |work=[[Official Gazette of the Republic of Turkey|Official Gazette]]|language=tr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Classification tables of municipalities and their affiliates and local administrative units|url=https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2010/09/20100912-1-1.doc |date=12 September 2010|work=[[Official Gazette of the Republic of Turkey|Official Gazette]]|language=tr|format=DOC}}</ref> It is on the [[Sea of Marmara]] about 51&nbsp;km southwest of [[Tekirdağ]].

The early history of this town is not known. It is first mentioned in connection with an earthquake which destroyed it in the year 1063.<ref>Muralt, "Essai de chronologie byzantine", II, 8.</ref> It was visited by [[John Cantacuzene]] about 1350.<ref>Hist., III, 76.</ref> After the [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|population exchange]] some [[Megleno-Romanians|Megleno-Romanian]] families were settled.

== Ecclesiastical history==
The original [[diocese]] was in [[Thracia Prima]], a [[suffragan]] of [[Perinthus|Heraclea Perinthos]].

A diocese of Peristatis (modern [[Şarköy]]) was established by 1170.<ref>Parthey, "Hieroclis Synecdemus", 103.</ref> The see was later transferred to Myriophyton, and renamed Peristasis and Myriophyton, mentioned first in a ''[[Notitia episcopatuum]]'' of the end of the fifteenth century.<ref>[[Heinrich Gelzer]], ''Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum'', 633.</ref>  In the sixteenth century Myriophytum displaced Peristasis, and the diocese took the name of Myriophyturn and Peristasis.<ref>[[Michel Le Quien|Le Quien]], ''Oriens christianus'', I, 1151.</ref>

According to the [[1914 population statistics for the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman population statistics of 1914]], the ''[[kaza]]'' of Mürefte had a population of 16,876 consisting of 14,146 [[Ottoman Greeks|Greeks]] (83.84%) and 2,730 [[Muslims]] (16.18%).<ref>[[Kemal Karpat]] (1985), [https://kupdf.net/downloadFile/59e4a7b908bbc56144e653d7 Ottoman Population, 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics], [[The University of Wisconsin Press]], p. 170–171</ref>

The [[Greek Orthodox]] diocese became in January 1909 an autocephalous [[metropolitan see]], the Metropolitanate of Myriophyton and Peristasis. The Orthodox population of the metropolitanate was evacuated in October 1922, just before the [[Greco-Turkish population exchange]], leaving no Orthodox population since then, but the church continues to appoint titular metropolitans to the see.{{sfn|Kiminas|2009|pp=61}}

The last [[Roman Catholic]] holder of the [[titular see]] of Myriophytos or Miriofido died in 1932, and the see has been suppressed.<ref>{{Catholic-hierarchy|diocese|d3m80|Myriophytos|21 January 2015}}</ref>

== Agriculture ==
The coastline between [[Tekirdağ]] and [[Şarköy]], particularly Mürefte, are notable centers for [[viticulture]] and [[winemaking]]. A well-known wine producer, "Kutman", is located in the village, and maintains a [[Kutman Wine Museum|wine museum]] also.<ref name="h1"/><ref name="eyr"/>

==Notable people==
*[[Aristotelis Kourtidis]] (1858 – 1928), Greek educator and writer.
*[[Vasilis Logothetidis]] (1897 - 1960), Greek actor.

== References ==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="h1">{{cite news |url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/index/ArsivNews.aspx?id=324621 |newspaper=[[Hürriyet]] |title=İşte Türkiye'nin şaraplık üzüm haritası |author=Akyol, Cahit |date=2005-06-04|language=Turkish |access-date=2015-07-28 }}</ref>

<ref name="eyr">{{cite web |url=http://www.e-yasamrehberi.com/photo/tekirdag/kutman_sarap_muzesi.htm |publisher=e-yasamrehberi.com |title=Fwyzi Kutman Mürefte Şarap Müzesi |language=Turkish |access-date=2015-07-28 }}</ref>
}}

== Sources ==
* {{Catholic|wstitle=Myriophytum}} The entry cites:
*Drakos, ''Thrakika'' (in Greek, Athens, 1892), 72–93.
* {{Cite book|last=Kiminas|first=Demetrius|title=The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs|year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLWqXrW2X-8C|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=9781434458766}}
* {{cite book|first=Andreas|last=Külzer|title=Tabula Imperii Byzantini: Band 12, Ostthrakien (Eurōpē)|publisher=Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften|location=Vienna|year=2008|language=German|isbn=978-3-7001-3945-4|url=http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/3945-4inhalt?frames=yes|page=540}}

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