Dikili
Dikili | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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Province (il) : | Izmir | |||
Coordinates : | 39 ° 5 ' N , 26 ° 53' E | |||
Height : | 7 m | |||
Residents : | 41,999 (2014) | |||
Telephone code : | (+90) | |||
Postal code : | 35 980 | |||
License plate : | 35 | |||
Structure and administration (as of 2015) | ||||
Mayor : | Mustafa Tosun ( CHP ) | |||
Website: | ||||
Dikili County | ||||
Surface: | 510 km² | |||
Kaymakam : | Mustafa Nazim Sezgin | |||
Website (Kaymakam): |
Dikili is a district and the associated county seat in the Turkish province of Izmir . The district is located in the north of the province on the Aegean coast and borders the Balıkesir Province . The distance to Izmir is about 100 km; In 2014 the city had 41,999 inhabitants. After a regional reform, the city is identical in terms of population and area to the district.
The former name of the village was Dikmelik ("tree nursery") after the Karaosmanoğlu family established a tree nursery there in the 18th century.
In the time of the Ottoman Empire , Dikili was the port of Bergama , today cruise ships to visit the ancient Pergamon dock there . The place is a seaside resort frequented by Turkish tourists, but has no sights of its own. At the end of the 19th century, the finds from the German Pergamon excavations were shipped via Diklili with the station ship of the German Embassy Loreley to Smyrna (İzmir) and on to Germany.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from January 19, 2016 on WebCite ), accessed January 19, 2016
- ↑ Website of the community ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sevan Nişanyan : Adini unutan Ülke. Türkiye'de Adı Değiştirilen Yerler Sözlüğü. Istanbul 2010, p. 178
- ↑ Malte Fuhrmann: The dream of the German Orient: two German colonies in the Ottoman Empire 1851-1918 . Campus Verlag, 2006 p. 91 ISBN 978-3-593-38005-6 at GoogleBooks