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Döğüşbelen is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of
Köyceğiz Köyceğiz is a municipality and district of Muğla Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,329 km2, and its population is 39,242 (2022). The town of Köyceğiz lies at the northern end of a lake of the same name ( Lake Köyceğiz) which is joined t ...
,
Muğla Province Muğla Province (, ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey, at the country's southwestern corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its area is 12,654 km2, and its population is 1 ...
,
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. Its population is 1,508 (2022).


Geography

Döğüşbelen is at the west of
Köyceğiz Lake Köyceğiz is a municipality and district of Muğla Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,329 km2, and its population is 39,242 (2022). The town of Köyceğiz lies at the northern end of a lake of the same name ( Lake Köyceğiz) which is joined t ...
and considered as the boundary between the geographic regions
Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...
and Aegean of Turkey. Distance to Köyceğiz is and to
Muğla Muğla () is a city in southwestern Turkey. The city is the center of the district of Menteşe, Muğla, Menteşe and Muğla Province, which stretches along Turkey's Aegean Sea, Aegean coast. Muğla's center is situated inland at an altitude of ...
is .


History

The village was founded in the first half of the 19th century. The early settlers were
Abkhazians The Abkhazians or Abkhazes are a Northwest Caucasian languages, Northwest Caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, a disputed region on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea. A large Abkhaz diaspora population resides in Turkey, th ...
who fled from the advance of
Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...
. In 1863, the nomadic
Turkmens Turkmens (, , , ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, living mainly in Turkmenistan, northern and northeastern regions of Iran and north-western Afghanistan. Sizeable groups of Turkmens are found also in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, ...
so called Yörük also tried to settle around the village. But the Ottoman government forces subdued them. The name of the village Döğüşbelen (fight-pass) refers to this struggle. However, after the 1930s, i.e., during the Turkish Republic era Yörüks peacefully settled in Döğüşbelen.


Living

The average age of the population in Döğüşbelen is higher than the other villages around, for a considerable portion of the population is composed of retired people. Although the village is an agricultural village, lately tourism has also begun to play a role in village economy.


References

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