Seferihisar

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Seferihisar
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Seferihisar (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Izmir
Coordinates : 38 ° 12 '  N , 26 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 38 ° 11 '50 "  N , 26 ° 50' 13"  E
Height : 30  m
Residents : 40,785 (2017)
Telephone code : (+90)
Postal code : 35 460
License plate : 35
Structure and administration
Mayor : Mustafa Tunç Soyer ( CHP )
Website:
Seferihisar County
Surface: 386 km²
Kaymakam : Resul Çelik
Website (Kaymakam):
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Sığacık Harbor

Seferihisar (formerly Sivrihisar ) 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 40 kilometers southwest of the center of the provincial capital.

The district is located in the west of the province on the Aegean Sea . It borders Urla , Güzelbahçe and Karabağlar to the north and Menderes to the east . The Bay of Teos occupies most of the coast in the southwest . In the center of the district, about six kilometers east of the district town, lies the Seferihisar Barajı reservoir , in which the Karakoç Çayı is dammed. Other dams in the district are the Kavakdere dam and the Ürkmez dam .

The former name of the city was Sivrihisar, but this led to confusion with the place Sivrihisar in Eskişehir. Therefore, in the 1890s, the Ottoman postal workers wrote Sivrihisar with a character above the V, which accidentally turned the V into an F over time. That led via Sifrihisar to today's Seferihisar.

history

In pre-Ottoman times, the city belonged to the Beylik of the Aydınoğulları . Under Bayezid II the pirate Kara Turmisch had a retreat there. The travel writer Evliya Çelebi visited the place in 1670.

Attractions

At Sığacık, about five kilometers southwest of Seferihisar and one kilometer from the sea, are the ruins of the ancient city of Teos .

Web links

Commons : Seferihisar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.nufusu.com/ilce/seferihisar_izmir-nufusu , accessed June 19, 2018
  2. ^ Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Clifford Edmund Bosworth: Siwri Ḥiṣār In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. 9, Brill, Leiden, p. 692