Bolvadin District
Bolvadin District is a district of Afyonkarahisar Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Bolvadin.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023. Its population is 33,443 (2021). It has an altitude of 1,016 m. The mayor is Fatih Kayacan ( Ak Party).
Bolvadin is the third-largest town in the province, after Afyonkarahisar and
Sandıklı
Sandıklı is a town of Afyonkarahisar Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Sandıklı District.Sultandağ and Emirdağ inland from the Aegean coast.
History
The city was founded in very early times. It was part of
Phrygia
In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; grc, Φρυγία, ''Phrygía'' ) was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. After its conquest, it became a region of the great empires ...
. In the Roman era it was known as
Polybotum
Polybotus or Polybotos ( el, Πολύβοτος) was a city in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris. Its site is located southwest of Bolvadin in Asiatic Turkey.
History
This town is mentioned in the 6th century by Hierocles in his ''Synecde ...
The plain is watered by the river Akarçay and is a rich agricultural land.
Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: ''Lachryma papaveris'') is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which i ...
was grown in the area and is still grown today; there is a factory here producing morphine for the pharmaceutical industry. However today the plain is also used for growing grain and fruit. The higher mountainside is forested. The climate is hot in summer, cold enough to snow in winter.
Lake Eber
Lake Eber ( tr, Eber Gölü) is a freshwater lake in Afyon Province, Turkey.
Geography
The lake is between the district centers of Çay, Bolvadin and Sultandağı of Afyon Province. The midpoint is at about . The altitude of the water surface ...
lies at the south-east edge of the plain, 967 m above sea level. Carp fishing and cutting rushes contribute to the economy of this farming district. This is not a rich region, it lacks infrastructure such as public transport and the people of Bolvadin are conservative.
Bolvadin is renowned for its cream made of buffalo milk.
The area is vulnerable to earthquakes.