Salihli
| Salihli | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Manisa | |||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 29 ' N , 28 ° 8' E | |||
| Height : | 125 m | |||
| Residents : | 156,861 (2014) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 236 | |||
| Postal code : | 45 xxx | |||
| License plate : | 45 | |||
| Structure and administration (status: 2014) | ||||
| Mayor : | Zeki Kayda ( MHP ) | |||
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| Salihli district | ||||
| Residents : | 156,861 (2014) | |||
| Surface: | 1,273 km² | |||
| Population density : | 123 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Ertan Peynircioğlu | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Salihli is a city in the Turkish province of Manisa and at the same time the capital of the district. Salihli is on the Izmir - Ankara road . It is the third largest city in the province. In 2014, after all municipalities and villages were incorporated, 156,861 citizens lived in the district.
history
Salihli is a city with a long history. In the time of the Hittites 1750–1200 BC The area around Salihli was probably called Assuwa or Uda . Herodotus traces the founding of the city under the name Hyde back to the Heraclid dynasty . In the 6th to 7th centuries BC, Sardis (now Sart ), a few kilometers to the west, was the capital of Lydia . The then king Kroisos was 437/539 BC. Defeated by the Persian great king Cyrus II . Sardis became the capital of the Persian satrapy Lydia. Sardis was also the starting point for the 2,500 km long Persian royal road to Persepolis .
With the victory of Alexander the Great in the Battle of Granicus in 334 BC BC Sardis came into the Hellenistic sphere of influence. Under the Seleucids , Jewish war veterans were settled in Sardis , which in turn later fostered the emergence of an early Christian community . From 133 BC BC Sardis became part of the Roman province of Asia , which received special cultural support under the Severians . It became the seat of a jury. In 17 AD, Sardis was struck by a severe earthquake that devastated the entire district. As a result, Emperor Tiberius exempted the city from all taxes for five years and also donated 10,000,000 sesterces for reconstruction. When Constantinople became the capital of the Byzantine Empire , a new system of roads developed connecting the provinces with the capital. Sardis was increasingly marginalized and lost its importance. However, it retained its formal sovereignty and from 295 became the bishopric of the province of Lydia.
Soon after 1301 the Seljuks overran the Hermos and Kaystro valleys , and in 1306 they were contractually awarded a fort on the citadel of Sardis. The city's decline continued until its conquest (and likely destruction) in 1402 by the Mongol ruler Timur . Until the 19th century Sardis was desolate and mainly buildings from the Roman period were visible. Harvard and Cornell Universities have supported annual archaeological digs in Sardis since 1958 . Today's ruined city gives an idea of its old splendor through its partial restoration . In addition to the destroyed old Sardis, the new Salihli was built around 10 kilometers from the ruins in the 16th century. In the Treaty of Sèvres , the region around Salihli was awarded to Greece and occupied by Greek troops on June 24, 1920 during the Greco-Turkish War . On September 5, 1923, Turkish troops captured the city.
According to the rabbinate's official website in Turkey, Judaism can be traced back to before 220 BC in Turkey. Trace back to BC. The ruins of a synagogue in Sardis date from this period .
geography
The city of Salihli is located in the south of the Gediz River, on a slope of the Bozdağ mountain range . It is 125 meters above sea level. In addition to the core city, the place consists of eight other communities.
- Adala
- Durasıllı
- Gökeyüp
- Mersinli
- Poyrazdamları
- Sart / Mahmut
- Taytan
- Yılmaz
There are also 78 villages in the region.
Personalities
- Habib Bektaş (* 1951), Turkish-speaking writer
- Zeynep Hansen (* 1973), economics professor
- Bekir Ozan Has (* 1985), Turkish football player
- Zekeriya Kacaroğlu (* 1993), Turkish football player
- Ali İhsan Karayiğit (1928–2013), Turkish football player
- Kadriye Karcı (* 1961), member of the Left Party
- Ali Tandoğan (* 1977), Turkish football player
- Çağrı Yarkın (* 1989), Turkish soccer player
swell
- ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( memento from March 19, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed March 19, 2015
- ↑ W.Barclay, Revelation 1, p 123
- ↑ Official website of the Salihli community: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Information about the history of Salihli (Turkish)
- ↑ Official website of the Ataturk State Research Center: Information about the Salihli occupation (Turkish)
- ↑ Official website of the Jewish Rabbinate Turkey: Information on the community and history of the Jews in Turkey ( Memento from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English, Turkish)
