Tavşanlı

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Tavşanlı (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Kutahya
Coordinates : 39 ° 33 '  N , 29 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 32 '37 "  N , 29 ° 29' 36"  E
Height : 849  m
Residents : 70,613 (2018)
Telephone code : (+90) 274
Postal code : 43 300
License plate : 43
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure : 19 Mahalle
Mayor : Mustafa Guler ( AKP )
Postal address : Yeni Mahalle
Cumhuriyet Meydanı No: 1
43300 Tavşanlı
Website:
Tavşanlı County
Residents : 101,903 (2018)
Surface: 1,899 km²
Population density : 54 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam : Yüksel Kara
Website (Kaymakam):
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Tavşanlı is a city and a district in the Turkish province of Kütahya . The city is located about 45 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital Kütahya . The current name is based on the originally Persian name Harguş ("hare"). However, the Turkish variant has been traceable since the 14th century.

geography

The district is located in the northwest of the province. It borders in the east with the central district, in the southeast with the Aslanapa district , in the south with the districts Emet and Simav , in the west with the province Balıkesir , in the north-west with the province Bursa , in the north with the district Domaniç and in the northeast with the Province Bilecik .

In Tavşanlı, the D595 trunk roads cross, which leads north from Simav past İznik Gölü to the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of ​​Marmara , and the D230 from Edremit on the Aegean Sea to Kütahya. The river Kocasu Deresi (also Orhaneli Çayı ) flows through the city and the district, which flows further north together with the Alıova Çayı (also Emet Çayı ) into the lake Uluabat Gölü . It is dammed in the south of the district to the Kayaboğazı Barajı reservoir. In the west of the city is the 1347 meter high mountain Okluk Dağı .

In addition to the district town (2018: 69.3% of the district's population) there are four other Belediye (municipalities) in the district: Tunçbilek (5,542), Tepecik (2,788), Balıköy (1,938) and Kuruçay (1,916 inhabitants). In addition, 87 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 219 residents belong to the district. Ayvalı (1,239), Derecik (1,042), Göbel (831) and Kayaarası (723 inh .) Are the largest villages. 25 villages have more than the average (219) inhabitants. After the central district (Merkez), the district has the second highest population density . The second places in terms of area and population are also occupied by Tavşanlı.

Sports

The city of Tavşanlı is represented in various sports by the sports club TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor , the company sports club of the local lignite works. Your best-known and most successful division is football . Here the club experienced its most successful period in the years 2009–2014. During this time, the club rose in the summer of 2010 under the coach Mustafa Reşit Akçay for the first time in the club's history in the TFF 1st Lig , in the 2nd Turkish league. After the promotion, the team played for a long time in the second division season 2010/11 for promotion to the Süper Lig and only missed this in the last match days. After Akçay's farewell in the summer of 2011, which despite his success was exposed to heavy criticism from the local media, the club was able to stay in the 2nd Turkish league until the summer of 2014 and then relegated to the amateur sector within two seasons. The football team's games take place in the Tavşanlı Ada Stadium .

Attractions

About ten kilometers west of Tavşanlı is the Phrygian rock monument of Dikilitaş.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Sevan Nişanyan: Adini unutan Ülke. Türkiye'de Adı Değiştirilen Yerler Sözlüğü. Istanbul 2010, p. 212