| Elmalı | |
| Nickname: Hazinelerin Anavatanı ("The Motherland of Treasures") |
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| Country |  Turkey |
| Region | Mediterranean |
| Province | Antalya |
| Incorporated | 1868 |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Hüseyin Yapıcı (AKP) |
| - Governor | Veysel Yurdakul |
| Area | |
| - District | 1,594 km² (615. A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions ( bölge) which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941 The Mediterranean Region (Akdeniz Bölgesi is one of the seven geographical regions of Turkey. Turkey is divided into 81 provinces called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i Antalya Province is located on the Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean sea. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 4 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,100 m (3,500 ft) |
| Population (2007) | |
| - District | 36,213 |
| - Density | 22,7/km² (54,5/sq mi) |
| - Metro | 14,038 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal code | 07700 |
| Area code(s) | (0090)+ 242 |
| Licence plate | 07 |
| Website: www.elmali.bel.tr www.elmali.gov.tr | |
Elmalı is a town and district in Antalya Province, the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large Metropolis and its adjacent zone of influence or of more than one closely adjoining neighboring central Eastern European Time ( EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Daylight saving time ( DST Eastern European Summer Time ( EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 Time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+3 is used in the following locations Moscow Time Eastern European Summer Time West Asian Summer Time A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks Turkish car number plates are License plates found on Turkish vehicles Antalya Province is located on the Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean sea. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches It lies about 35 km (22 mi) inland, near the town of Korkuteli and 110 km (68 mi) west of the city of Antalya. Korkuteli is a district of Antalya Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, north-west of the city of Antalya. Antalya (formerly known as Adalia; from Pamphylian Greek: Αττάλεια Attália) is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern In 2007, the population for the whole district was 36. 213, of which 14,038 live in the town of Elmalı.
Formerly known as Kabalı and Emelas.
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Geography
Elmalı is a small plateau at the head of a long upland valley in the Beydağları range of the western Taurus Mountains, surrounded by high peaks including the 2500m Elmalı Mountain. For the Taurus Mountains on the moon see Montes Taurus. For Mount Taurus outside Cold Spring New York, see Bull Hill. Aside from the town of Elmalı, the district includes two other small towns (Akçay and Yuva) as well as villages. The area is watered by streams running off the mountains. Although close to the Mediterranean, Elmalı is high in the mountains and has an inland climate of cold winters and hot summers, (although still much cooler than the coast). Near to Lake Avlan there is an area of cedar forest, rare in Turkey.
History
Excavations, by Machteld Mellink from Bryn Mawr College, of the burial mounds of Semahöyük and Müren have shown signs of copper production dating back to 2500 BC. Machteld Johanna Mellink ( Oct 26 1917, Amsterdam - Feb 24 2006, Haverford Pennsylvania) was a leading Near Eastern Bryn Mawr College ( brin-mar is a highly selective women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion The area was later a key town in the north of the antique province of Lycia, and the Lycian Way trade route came through here. "Sidyma" redirects here For the Moth Genus named thus see Sidyma (moth. The Lycian Way is a long-distance footpath in Turkey, researched by Kate Clow. It was a small town of Asia Minor in the vilayet of Konia in the Ottoman era, then the administrative centre of the ancient Lycia, but not itself corresponding to any known ancient city. According to Britannica, the town was inhabited by direct descendants of the ancient Lycians, who had preserved a distinctive facial type, noticeable at once in the town population. There were about fifty Greek families, the rest of the population (4000) being Moslem (as of 1911). The plain was subsequently controlled by the Ancient Romans, Byzantines, and the Seljuk Turks. This is a list of topics related to ancient Rome that aims to include aspects of both the ancient Roman Republic and Roman Empire. The Seljuq (also Seljuq Turks, Seldjuks, Seldjuqs, Seljuks; in Turkish Selçuklular; in Ṣaljūqīyān; in The town was the headquarters of Beylik of Teke clan of Anatolian Turkish Beyliks when it was brought into the Ottoman Empire at the time of Sultan Bayezid I. The Anatolian Turkish Beylik of Teke with its capital at Antalya was one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after thumb|350px|Anatolian Turkish Beyliks map Anatolian Beyliks or Turkmen Beyliks ( Turkish: Anadolu Beylikleri, Ottoman Turkish: The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Bayezid I ( Ottoman: بايزيد الأول Turkish: Beyazıt, nicknamed Yıldırım (Ottoman ییلدیرم "the Thunderbolt" It remained a key mountain stronghold in the Ottoman period and through the early years of the Turkish republic, but has declined as recent generations have left the dry mountainside for jobs on the coast or in Turkey's major cities.
Demographics
According to 2007 census the town has 14. 038 and its villages have 22. 175 habitants. In 2000 the population of the town was 14. 600 and the villages had 25. 440 habitants. [1]
Elmalı has 2 municipalities (Akçay and Yuva) and 49 villages.
The population of inhabited places is as follows according to 2007 census(Municipalities are shown in bold)
| Town/Village | Population(as of 2007) |
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| Elmalı | 14. 038 |
| Ahatlı | 361 |
| Akçainiş | 745 |
| Akçay | 1. 721 |
| Armutlu | 333 |
| Avşar | 271 |
| Bayındır | 317 |
| Bayralar | 841 |
| Beyler | 253 |
| Bozhüyük | 821 |
| Büyüksöğle | 405 |
| Çalpınar | 415 |
| Çaybaşı | 384 |
| Çobanisa | 183 |
| Çukurelma | 308 |
| Dereköy | 101 |
| Düdenköy | 582 |
| Eskihisar | 899 |
| Eymir | 584 |
| Geçitköy | 177 |
| Geçmen | 287 |
| Gökpınar | 617 |
| Gölova | 451 |
| Göltarla | 170 |
| Gümüşyaka | 156 |
| Hacımusalar | 190 |
| Hacıyusuflar | 62 |
| Imırcık | 150 |
| İslamlar | 462 |
| Karaköy | 66 |
| Karamık | 363 |
| Kışlaköy | 394 |
| Kızılca | 88 |
| Kocapınar | 271 |
| Kuzuköy | 125 |
| Küçüksöğle | 265 |
| Macun | 221 |
| Mursal | 382 |
| Ovacık | 95 |
| Özdemir | 583 |
| Pirhasanlar | 332 |
| Salur | 456 |
| Sarılar | 171 |
| Tavullar | 276 |
| Tekkeköy | 1. 067 |
| Yakaçiftlik | 469 |
| Yalnızdam | 291 |
| Yapraklı | 224 |
| Yılmazlı | 374 |
| Yörenler | 64 |
| Yuva | 2. 559 |
| Zümrütova | 793 |
| Total | 36. 213 |
Elections
2007 General Elections(Parties with more than %5)
| Party | Number of Votes | Percentage(%) |
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| AKP | 7. 880 | 31,90 |
| CHP | 7. 686 | 31,81 |
| MHP | 4. 576 | 18,52 |
| DP | 3. 157 | 12,78 |
| Turnover | %89,90 |
Elmalı today
The district's economy is largely agricultural; 37% of the land is planted. In keeping with its name, (literally apple-town) Elmalı produces 12% of the Turkey's apples. The apple is the pomaceous Fruit of the apple tree Species Malus domestica in the Rose family Rosaceae. Other fruit and vegetables are grown here too, the local leblebi (dried chick peas) is delicious. Leblebi (leblebi is a kind of Snack made from roasted Chickpeas very common and popular in Turkey.
Few tourists come to Elmalı although the town is beginning to attract visitors thanks to its rich traditional architecture and beautiful mountain surroundings; these people are either day-trippers or passing through en route to the Mediterranean coast, but do bring important income to the area. Also some residents of the coastal towns such as Finike, Fethiye or Kaş have holiday homes in Elmalı, a retreat from the summer heat on the coast. Finike (ancient Phoenicus) is a district on the Mediterranean coast of Antalya Province of Turkey, 90 minutes west of the city of Antalya Fethiye is a City and district of Muğla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey with about 68000 Inhabitants Kaş is a small fishing yachting and tourist town and a district of Antalya Province of Turkey, 168km west of the city of Antalya. There is little industry or manufacturing in the district, only a brickworks, flour and feed mills, and a fruit juice plant.
Most people live in cottages and wooden houses, but there are some apartment buildings in Elmalı itself, a small town of 14,500 people with banks and other essential services. The infrastructure in the villages is basically little more than telephones, and elementary schools. Each village used to have a traditional guest house (köy evi) but many are in disrepair today.
The cuisine is typical of Anatolia, you will find ladies grilling the flat bread gözleme by the roadside, but Elmalı is known for its various ways of using sesame, including baked beans served with a lemon and sesame relish (Antalya usulu piyaz). Gözleme is a savoury traditional Turkish hand made and hand rolled pastry Piyaz (piyaz from پیاز "onion" is a kind of Turkish salad or Meze that is made from any kind of dry Beans with Hard-boiled Another local speciality is a goats milk ice-cream. And of course one of the most delicious things in Elmalı is the cool mountain spring water. Or a glass of tea made with it.
Places of interest
- There are a number of mosques, prayer schools and other buildings from the Beylik of Teke and the Ottoman periods. The Anatolian Turkish Beylik of Teke with its capital at Antalya was one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after Of particular interest are the library containing a collection of Ottoman writings and the mosque and medrese (prayer school) of Ömer Paşa, (1602), student of the great Ottoman architect, Mimar Sinan. "Madrasa" and "Medrese" redirect here For the village in Azerbaijan see Mədrəsə. Omer Pasha Mosque was built by Ketendji Omer Pasha in 1602. It is located in Elmalı, Antalya Province, Turkey. Koca Mi‘mār Sinān Āġā ( Ottoman Turkish: خوجه معمار سنان آغا ( April 15, 1489 - April 09, There is an earlier, Seljuk period minaret opposite the mosque. Other Ottoman buildings include the tombs of Abdül Vehhat and Abdal Musa; the mosque of Sinan-i Ümmi; the Turkish bath, Bey Hamamı; the fountain of Çatalçeşme, (in the centre, behind the broken minaret).
- Recent excavation has revealed a great number of tombs and relics from antique Lycia, and even earlier.
- The Lycian castle of Gilevgi, between the villages of Gilevgi and Çobanisa.
There are of course many places for picnics in the forest and there is an oil wrestling tournament in the first week of September.
Elmalı Treasures
(Elmalı Hazinesi) is the name commonly given in Turkey to an important find of antique treasure; 1,900 silver coins (including 1,100 from Lydia and 14 extremely rare decadrachms) from the Delian League. Defining Lydia Aside from a legend related by Herodotus, who states that the name Lydia came from king Lydus at the time of the fall of Troy Drachma, pl drachmas or drachmae (δραχμή pl δραχμές or δραχμαί (until 1982 is the name of An ancient currency unit found in many The Delian League was an association of approximately 150 5th-century BC Greek City-states under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue They were discovered during an illegal excavation in 1984 in Bayındır village, Elmalı and smuggled to the U. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) S. Their retrieval from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts through the efforts of the journalist Özgen Acar and the Turkish government made the headlines in late 1990s. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States attracting over one million visitors a year Politics of Turkey takes place in a framework of a strictly secular parliamentary representative democratic Republic, whereby the Prime The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Today, the coins are on exhibit in Elmalı Museum. [2]
Well-known residents
- Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır (1877 - 1942) Muslim cleric whose Turkish language Koran is accepted as a standard translation. A cleric ( Ancient Greek κληρικός - klērikos clergyman (pl Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. The Qur’an ( القرآن, literally "the recitation" also sometimes transliterated as Qur’ān, Koran, Alcoran He was born in Elmalı (although his family descended from Yazır Turkmens of Burdur). This article is about the Turkmen people of Turkmenistan. For the distinct group of Turk peoples of Iraq see Iraqi Turkmen. Burdur (formerly sometimes called Buldur) is a city southwestern Turkey and the seat of the Burdur Province of Turkey. He represented Antalya in the parliament of the Second Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire) in 1906 and later wrote on religious matters for the government of the Turkish Republic, on behalf of Atatürk himself. The Second Constitutional Era (ايکنجى مشروطيت دورى İkinci Meşrûtiyyet Devri) of the Ottoman Empire began shortly after Sultan Abdülhamid Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (19 May 1881 &ndash 10 November 1938 was an army officer revolutionary Statesman
- Abdal Musa, a well-known sufi preacher, a relative of Hacı Bektash Veli. Sufism ( تصوّف - taṣawwuf, Persian: صوفیگری sufigari, Turkish: tasavvuf, Urdu: تصوف Hajji Bektash Wali ( Ḥājī Baktāš Wālī; Turkish: Hacı Bektaş Veli) was a Persian There is a festival to commemorate him held every June in the village of Tekke, where he is buried.
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References
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