Menemen (Izmir)

Menemen
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Izmir
Coordinates :	38 ° 36 '  N , 27 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 38 ° 36 '26 "  N , 27 ° 4' 3"  E
Height :	14  m
Residents :	148,662 (2014)
Telephone code :	(+90)
Postal code :	35660
License plate :	35
Structure and administration (as of 2016)
Mayor :	Tahir Şahin ( CHP )
Website:	www.menemen.bel.tr
Menemen County
Residents :	148,662 (2014)
Surface:	694 km²
Population density :	214 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Gülihsan Yiğit
Website (Kaymakam):	www.menemen.gov.tr

Taşhan caravanserai

Menemen is a city and a district in the Turkish province of Izmir and at the same time a district of the Büyükşehir Belediyesi (city municipality) Izmir . After a regional reform, the city is identical in terms of population and area to the district. The city is located about 20 kilometers northwest of the center of the provincial capital Izmir.

The district is located in the northern center of the province. It borders in the northwest on Foça and Aliağa , in the east on the Manisa province and in the south on Bornova , Karşıyaka and Çiğli . The western border forms the coast to the Gulf of Izmir (İzmir Körfezi) . There are large salt mining areas in which numerous birds, especially flamingos, breed. The area is called Vogelparadies (İzmir Kuş Cenneti) and stretches to the southeast as far as the Çiğli district. The town of Menemen is located on the left bank of the Gediz River .

history

Menemen is first mentioned in the 13th or 14th century by Georgios Pachymeres , who writes that the Tourkoi moved into the Mainomenou kampos , which Aschikpaschazade translates in his historical work as Menemen Owasi , i.e. Plain of Menemen. The area was under Sarukhanid rule until it came to the Ottoman Empire in the reign of Sultan Murad I (1319-1389) . Up until the population exchange after the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, the city was mainly inhabited by Greeks (4,683 Greeks, 3,606 Muslims), while Muslims were in the majority in the district (17,261 Muslims, 7,195 Greeks).

The place became known in the republic when the Turkish teacher and reserve officer Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay was murdered by Islamic fanatics here, which remained in the collective memory of society as the Kubilay event or the Menemen event .

Attractions

In the urban area of ​​Menemen is the Ottoman complex around the Taşhan caravanserai from the 16th / 17th centuries. Century with bedests , tombs and two mosques.

There is also a statue in memory of Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay .

Personalities

• İlyas Çakmak , Turkish soccer player
• İsmail Dinler , Turkish soccer player
• Attila İlhan , Turkish writer
• Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay , Turkish teacher and reserve officer, beheaded in Menemen in 1930
• Çağlar Söyüncü , Turkish football player

Web links

Commons : Menemen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from January 19, 2016 on WebCite ), accessed January 19, 2016
2. ^ S. Soucek: Menemen In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. 6, Brill, Leiden, pp. 1015-1016
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kubilay Anıtı (Menemen) ..  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.