Bayındır is a district of
İzmir Province of
Turkey and the central town of the district which is situated in the valley of the
Küçük Menderes.
[ The cited information may be out of date.]
History
Its name in classical antiquity was
Caystrus (Κάϋστρος), near Smyrna. Its present name derives from Turkish people who in the 11th c. AD settled there; they were members of the
Bayındır
Bayındır is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey and the central town of the district which is situated in the valley of the Küçük Menderes. The cited information may be out of date.
History
Its name in classical antiquity was Caystrus ...
clan, one of the 24 original
Oghuz clans. In 1997, the town population was 18,100. It is connected with
İzmir by a branch of the
Aydın
Aydın ( ''EYE-din''; ; formerly named ''Güzelhisar'', Ancient and Modern Greek: Τράλλεις /''Tralleis''/) is a city in and the seat of Aydın Province in Turkey's Aegean Region. The city is located at the heart of the lower valley of B ...
railway, and has a trade in
olive
The olive, botanical name ''Olea europaea'', meaning 'European olive' in Latin, is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin. When in shrub form, it is known as ''Olea europaea'' ...
s,
olive oil
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives (the fruit of ''Olea europaea''; family Oleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, produced by pressing whole olives and extracting the oil. It is commonly used in cooking: f ...
,
cotton,
fig
The fig is the edible fruit of ''Ficus carica'', a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world ...
s,
raisins and
tobacco.
Transport
The district is crossed by the
Torbalı-Tire railway, with a
branch to Ödemiş. It is served by regional trains from/to
İzmir (
Basmane-Ödemiş and
Basmane-Tire), and counts the stations of
Arıkbaşı,
Karpuzlu
Karpuzlu is a town and district of Aydın Province, in the Aegean region of Turkey, from the city of Aydın. It became a district centre after separation from Çine in 1990.
Karpuzlu is reached by turning off the road from Aydın to Çine. T ...
,
Elifli,
Furunlu,
Bayındır
Bayındır is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey and the central town of the district which is situated in the valley of the Küçük Menderes. The cited information may be out of date.
History
Its name in classical antiquity was Caystrus ...
(in the capital town),
Yakaköy and
Çatal.
References
External links
Populated places in İzmir Province
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