Yalova
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 City center with the monument of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk |
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Yalova | |||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 39 ′ N , 29 ° 17 ′ E | |||
| Residents : | 124,956 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 226 | |||
| Postal code : | 77 100 | |||
| License plate : | 77 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 14 Mahalle | |||
| Mayor : | Vefa Salman ( CHP ) | |||
| Postal address : | Süleymanbey Mahallesi İstiklal Caddesi No: 29 77100 Yalova |
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| Yalova district | ||||
| Residents : | 144,407 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 139 km² | |||
| Population density : | 1,039 inhabitants per km² | |||
Yalova (in ancient times Pylai , German earlier also Jalowa ) is the capital of the Turkish province of Yalova and at the same time the center of a district directly subordinate to the governor ( Vali ), the central district ( Merkez ). It is located on the south-eastern part of the Marmara Sea , only 24 nautical miles from Istanbul .
The town
Yalova is a popular resort with a high level of local tourism. Many of the tourists come from Istanbul and the surrounding area and own a vacation home there. There are many vegetable and other gardens on the main road, the connecting road between İzmit and Bursa . Tourists from Arab countries also come to Yalova to spend their holidays there, mostly from Kuwait , the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia .
In the center of the city is a roundabout with a statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the middle. After the 1999 earthquake , many new buildings were built in the city. The Sahil beach promenade was expanded and embellished. A little to the west of the promenade, new parks were built on the rubble of the destroyed houses. Along the promenade there is a long sandy beach with many parks, children's playgrounds, tea gardens, ice cream parlors, restaurants and cafes. To the east of the harbor is a large park with an amphitheater . Events take place there in summer.
There are thermal springs about 12 km southwest in the mountains above Yalova . The thermal baths, called Pythia Therma in antiquity , have been used since the Hellenistic era and were also very popular in the Byzantine and Ottoman times. Because of their healing properties, they were also visited by Constantine the Great , Emperor Justin I and Kemal Ataturk . The latter had the bathrooms renovated. Therefore his residence in Yalova (like the one in Florya ) was converted into a museum as Ataturk's house .
One of the earlier names of Yalova was Yalakabad. According to the city seal, Yalova received the status of a Belediye (municipality) in 1927 and has been a twin town of Bonn since 1969 . B. a park called "Bad Godesberg Parkı". There are speedboat connections to Istanbul from Yalova.
Yalova was badly hit by the great Marmara earthquake on August 17th, 1999. The earthquake killed over 16,000 people, left 25,000 injured and an unknown number of people missing. The magnitude of the earthquake was 7.8 and it lasted 45 seconds.
7 km southwest of the city is the Gökçe dam , which was built to supply drinking water .
district
The central district ( Merkez ) was created together with the province of the same name in 1995 by splitting off part of the Yalova district from the Istanbul province . It is divided into the district town with 86.5% of the district population and another municipality ( Belediye ), namely Kadıköy with 8,198 inhabitants. The district also has eleven villages ( Köy ) with a total population of 11,253 inhabitants. These have an average population of 1,023 residents. Four villages have over a thousand inhabitants: Safran (1,412), Sugören (1,691), Elmalık (1,903) and Samanlı (2,352).
population
Population development
The following table shows the comparative population level at the end of the year for the province, the central district and the city of Yalova as well as the respective share at the higher administrative level. The figures are based on the address-based population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007.
| year | province | district | city | ||
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| absolutely | proportionally (%) | absolutely | proportionally (%) | absolutely | |
| 2018 | 262.234 | 55.07 | 144.407 | 86.53 | 124,956 |
| 2017 | 251.203 | 55.86 | 140.312 | 85.24 | 119.605 |
| 2016 | 241,665 | 56.69 | 137.007 | 85.12 | 116,615 |
| 2015 | 233.009 | 56.79 | 132,322 | 84.78 | 112.183 |
| 2014 | 226,514 | 56.36 | 127,670 | 84.54 | 107,928 |
| 2013 | 220.122 | 56.34 | 124.018 | 84.45 | 104,737 |
| 2012 | 211,799 | 57.36 | 121,479 | 84.68 | 102,874 |
| 2011 | 206,535 | 57.62 | 118.998 | 84.76 | 100,863 |
| 2010 | 203,741 | 57.17 | 116,471 | 84.44 | 98,347 |
| 2009 | 202,531 | 56.31 | 114.054 | 80.81 | 92.166 |
| 2008 | 197,412 | 54.51 | 107,609 | 84.61 | 91,047 |
| 2007 | 181,758 | 56.60 | 102,871 | 84.93 | 87,372 |
City population update
The following tables show the population of the city of Yalova documented in the 14 censuses .
The values in the table on the left are taken from e-books (from the original documents), the values in the table on the right come from the data query of the Turkish statistical institute TÜIK - available on this website:
| year | population |
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| 1927 | - |
| 1935 | 2,322 |
| 1940 | 2,300 |
| 1945 | 3,608 |
| 1950 | 3,833 |
| 1955 | ? |
| 1960 | 11,318 |
| year | population |
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| 1965 | 14,241 |
| 1970 | 17,689 |
| 1975 | 27,289 |
| 1980 | 41,823 |
| 1985 | 53,857 |
| 1990 | 65,823 |
| 2000 | 70.118 |
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Yalova (4 m)
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sons and daughters of the town
- Sarkis Minassian (1873-1915), journalist and teacher
- Muharrem İnce (* 1964), teacher, writer and politician (CHP)
- Şebnem Ferah (* 1972), rock musician
- Mehmet Okur (* 1979), basketball player
- Emrah Serbes (* 1981), writer
Twin cities
Yalova has partnerships with the following cities:
- Bad Godesberg , Germany
- Tonami , Japan
- Makhachkala , Dagestan / Russia
- Panjin , China
- Geçitkale (Lefkoniko), Cyprus ( Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus )
- Suwon , South Korea
- Burgas , Bulgaria
- Mecidiye , Romania
- Komotini , Greece
- Belogorsk , Ukraine
- Batumi , Georgia
- Rottenburg am Neckar , Germany
literature
- Arif Müfid Mansel : Yalova ve civari = Yalova and surroundings . Istanbul 1936
- Thomas Corsten : The inscriptions of Apameia (Bithynien) and Pylai . Bonn 1987. (Inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor, Vol. 32) ISBN 3-7749-2261-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl İlçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusu (Nufusune.com) , accessed on April 23, 2019
- ↑ Central Dissemination System / Merkezi Dağıtım Sistemi (MEDAS) of the TÜIK , accessed on May 9, 2019
- ↑ Genel Nüfus Sayımları (census results 1965 to 2000)
- ↑ http://www.yalova.bel.tr/?dizayn=detay&id=23
