Kıyıköy

Kıyıköy
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Kırklareli
District ( ilçe ) :	Vice
Coordinates :	41 ° 38 '  N , 28 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 38 '7 "  N , 28 ° 5' 46"  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

1. ↑ 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