Kıyıköy
Kıyıköy | ||||
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Basic data | ||||
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Province (il) : | Kırklareli | |||
District ( ilçe ) : | Vice | |||
Coordinates : | 41 ° 38 ' N , 28 ° 6' E | |||
Residents : | 2,248 (2000) | |||
Telephone code : | (+90) 288 | |||
Postal code : | 39 xxx | |||
License plate : | 39 | |||
Structure and administration (status: 2007) | ||||
Mayor : | Ismail Gök ( CHP ) |
Kıyıköy ( Midye , Midieh , gr. Μήδεια , Midea , Alydessos , Salmydessus ) is a small village in the Turkish Thrace on the wooded Black Sea coast in the province of Kırklareli . It has a fishing port. The quickest way to get to Kıyıköy is via the Çorlu motorway exit via the Saray forest road. The place has several sandy beaches and is primarily visited by domestic tourists, mostly from Istanbul. In the past, the main sources of income were fishing and logging, but tourism is becoming increasingly important.
history
In the ancient
Salmydessos was a city of Thracian kings in the settlement area of the Thynen . The place Salmydessos is often mentioned in ancient literature , including the Argonaut saga.
- Phineus , the blind king of Salmydessus in Thrace, was a victim of the harpies , who partly carried away and partly defiled his food.
In the village you can still see the gates and walls of the Byzantine fortifications. In the area you can visit the old Byzantine monastery caves Aya Nikola with unusual stone furniture.
The wild stony rocky coast has very peculiar caves, which wash in and suck out sea water like large washing machines.
The ancient poet Archilochus wrote about the place:
- ... from the surge
- Washed up on the coast;
- To Salmydessos like him, the naked wimp,
- Thracians with a shaggy head
- Seize in the dark of night - there it will be enough
- Endure bad things, the bread
- the slave eat, - may he freeze from frost
- Completely covered with seaweed
- And chattering teeth like a dog on its mouth
- Lying exhausted at the edge
- The high surf tide, in the spray, - I could
- Just see for yourself who is me
- So wronged, trampled the oath - and was
- Formerly this my friend.
In modern times
Most of the Greeks lived in the village until the beginning of the 20th century. According to statistics from Ljubomir Miletitsch , there were still 300 Greek families in 1912.
In 1912 the town was captured by the Bulgarian army in the course of the First Balkan War . After the London Treaty of 1913 it became a border town between Bulgaria and Turkey and part of the Midia - Enoz border line . After the Second Balkan War , Midia again became part of Turkey. The last of the Greek families were evicted in the 1920s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lyubomir Miletich: Разорението на тракийскитеѣ българи презъ 1913 година (. Bulg Razorjawaneto na trakijskite Balgari prez 1913 godina) Publisher Balgarski bestseller, Sofia, 2003, p 303, ISBN 954-9308-14-6