Kızılca

Kızılca
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Denizli
District ( ilçe ) :	Tavas
Coordinates :	37 ° 29 '  N , 29 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 29 '10 "  N , 29 ° 8' 16"  E
Height :	1165  m
Surface:	91 km²
Residents :	1,871 (2014)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+90) 258
Postal code :	20520
License plate :	20th

Kızılca is a district of the city of Tavas in the Turkish province of Denizli . Kızılca is located about 59 km south of the provincial capital Denizli and 17 km southeast of Tavas. According to the last census, Kızılca had 1,871 inhabitants (as of December 2014).

geography

Kızılca is bordered by the districts of Aydoğdu in the northeast, the district of Alaattin belonging to the city of Acıpayam in the east, Ovacık in the south and Pınarlar in the west. Around Kızılca are the mountains Akça Dağı, Kızılhisar Dağı and Tınaz Dağı with heights of 1,000 to 2,500 meters. The height above sea level is 1,165 meters.

Kızılca has a continental climate . Summertime is hot and dry, winter is cold and rainy, and there is snowfall between November and January.

population

In Kızılca there were two waves of emigration: The first wave took place in the mid-20th century in the neighboring provinces of Aydın and İzmir instead, the second wave took place in the second half of the 20th century West , Central and Southern Europe and North America held .

An estimated 6,000 people, whose roots are in Kızılca, currently live outside the district, including around 4,000 people abroad in the third and fourth generation, mostly in Germany , France , Canada and Austria and some in Belgium , Italy , the Netherlands and in Switzerland . The remaining 2,000 or so people from the district who left the place stayed in Turkey. They mostly live in the provincial capital Denizli and in Tavas, but also in the neighboring provinces of Aydın and İzmir.

Population development

The following overview shows the number of inhabitants according to the respective territorial status. The numbers since 1980 are the results of censuses. The population figures in the following table refer to the population registered in the district, but not to the migrants abroad and in other cities in Turkey. From the mid-1980s onwards, there was a significant population decline due to emigration abroad and rural exodus. From 1985 to 2008 the population decline was 46.97%.

date Residents October 12, 1980 3,020 20th October 1985 3,613 October 21, 1990 3,565 October 22, 2000 2,533 December 31, 2007 1,988 December 31, 2008 1.916

date Residents December 31, 2009 1.965 December 31, 2010 1.996 December 31, 2011 2,022 December 31, 2012 1.925 December 31 2013 1,885

Culture and sights

About 2 km east of Kızılca is the ancient city of Sebastopolis on the highway to Alaattin . Only a few remains of the ancient city are left today due to erosion . The best preserved remains are the Höyük Hill, a 7 meter high settlement mound with a diameter of 150 meters, a few steps of a stadium and a necropolis . The size of the stadium was about 150 meters in length and 60 meters in width. The necropolis, presumably from the Roman Empire , is located about 1.5 km east of the ancient city.

Economy and Infrastructure

For centuries the source of income has traditionally been the production of Leblebi . Other sources of income are agriculture and animal husbandry . There are currently seven mosques and two cemeteries in Kızılca . A bazaar is held every Saturday in the central square of Çarşı Meydanı . The square is also the departure and arrival point for buses between Kızılca and Tavas, which run every hour.

In 1998, the “Aid Association for Kızılca eV” (Turkish: Kızılca Yardım Derneği eV ) was founded by the migrants from Kızılca in the city of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg . Since then, the association has been investing in its hometown through events that take place in various cities in Germany, Canada and Austria.

Web links

• Aid Association for Kızılca eV / Kızılca Yardım Derneği eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from August 29, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed August 29, 2015