Bergama

This article deals with the Turkish modern city of Bergama , for the ancient city of Pergamon see: Pergamon . See also: Bergamo (disambiguation) .

Bergama
Help on coat of arms
Basic data
Province (il) :	Izmir
Coordinates :	39 ° 7 '  N , 27 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 7 '22 "  N , 27 ° 10' 42"  E
Height :	68  m
Residents :	101,813 (2014)
Telephone code :	(+90)
Postal code :	35 700
License plate :	35
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Mayor :	Mehmet Gönenç ( CHP )
Website:	www.bergama.bel.tr
Bergama County
Residents :	101,813 (2014)
Surface:	1,722 km²
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Osman Nuri Canatan
Website (Kaymakam):	www.bergama.gov.tr

View of the city from Castle Hill

Bergama ( Latin Pergamum , Greek Pergamon ) is a district town in the province of Izmir near the west coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey . After a regional reform, the city is identical in terms of population and area to the district.

In ancient times the city of Pergamon was located here , in Hellenism the capital of the Attalid Empire , which extended over large parts of western Asia Minor. Their ruins are the subject of research from excavations carried out by the German Archaeological Institute .

On the northeastern outskirts, east of the castle hill ( Acropolis ), there is the Kestel dam .

history

For the history of antiquity and the history of excavations see the article Pergamon .

After the Turks immigrated to Asia Minor around 1300, Bergama belonged to the Beylik Karesi . When the Ottomans under Sultan Orhan I. annexed the Beylik, the town became a judicial district (kaza) of Sanjak Kh udāwendigār ( Bursa ) in eyalet Anatolia, later the Sanjak İzmir in the Vilayet of Aydın . After the Battle of Bergama , Greek troops occupied the city in the years 1919–1923, but the city lost its Greek inhabitants in the course of the population exchange under the Treaty of Lausanne and was settled by resettled Turks from Greece. In 1950 the population was given as 16,500.

Town twinning

Trajan Temple in Pergamon

Bergama has partnerships with the following cities:

• Böblingen , Germany (since 1967)
• Asenovgrad , Bulgaria (since 1992)

Personalities

• Hüsnü Şenlendirici (* 1976), musician
• Semih Kaya (* 1991), Turkish soccer player
• Cengiz Doğu (1945–2019), Turkish-German publicist , poet , screenwriter and human rights activist

Handicrafts

In a circle, carpets are woven that also bear the place name:

• Yağcıbedir
• Kazdağı
• Yuntdağı
• Yüncü Karakeçili
• Kozak

Some older specimens are on display at the State Archaeological Museum . In the 1980s, in the Ayvacık and Yuntdağ regions near the city of Bergama, the cooperatives of the DOBAG initiative were set up , which initiated a renewal of the traditional craft of carpet knotting using hand-spun wool dyed with natural colors.

See also

• Pergamon Museum in Berlin
• Smyrna Carpet

literature

• Wolfgang Radt: Pergamon. History and buildings of an ancient metropolis. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-89678-116-2 .
• Stephan WE Blum, Frank Schweizer and Rustem Aslan: Aerial photos of ancient landscapes and sites in Turkey. With aerial photos by Hakan Öge . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2006, 144 pages with 97 color illustrations, ISBN 3-8053-3653-5 , pages 24-29.
• Manfred Klinkott: The Byzantine fortifications of Pergamon with their defense and building history , de Gruyter 2001.

Web links

Commons : Bergama  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bergama website (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from January 19, 2016 on WebCite ), accessed January 19, 2016
2. ^ VJ Parry: Bergama. In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. 1, Brill, Leiden, p. 1187.
3. ↑ Побратимени градове ; Town twinning of Asenovgrad (Bulgarian)
4. ↑ Werner Brüggemann and Harald Böhmer: Carpets of the farmers and nomads in Anatolia . 2nd Edition. Verlag Kunst und Antiquitäten, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-921811-20-1 .