Zeytinkoy
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| Province (il) : | Izmir | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | Selçuk | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 59 ' N , 27 ° 17' E | |||
| Height : | 10 m | |||
| Residents : | 901 (2010) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) | |||
| Postal code : | 35920 | |||
| License plate : | 35 | |||
Zeytinköy is a village in the Selçuk district of the Turkish province of Izmir . Zeytinköy is located about 89 km south of the provincial capital İzmir , 14 km northwest of Selçuk and 23 km north of Kuşadası . According to the last census, Zeytinköy had 901 inhabitants (as of December 2009). Zeytinköy is about 3 km from the Aegean Sea .
history
After the population exchange between Greece and Turkey , Zeytinköy was founded in 1924 by Turks from Thessaloniki . Zeytinköy ( Turkish for olive village ) got its name from the numerous olive trees . Between 1940 and 1950 people immigrated mainly from the provinces of Denizli , Erzincan , Isparta , Erzurum , Sivas and Trabzon . The population consists mainly of Turks and Zaza , but there are also some Kurds .
Economy and Infrastructure
The main sources of income are agriculture , cultivation of cotton and olives. Many people left the village due to lack of jobs and settled in Selçuk or Kuşadası. There they mostly work in tourism .
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed May 17, 2011