Salavatlı (formerly: ''Kurucular'') is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

Sultanhisar Sultanhisar is a municipality and district of Aydın Province, Turkey. Its area is 220 km2, and its population is 20,230 (2022). It is 30 km east of the city of Aydın on the road to Denizli. History The first settlement here was the ...

Aydın Province Aydın Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region. Its area is 8,116 km2, and its population is 1,148,241 (2022). T ...

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. Its population is 1,204 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''

belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...

''). It is situated to the north of Turkish state highway D.320 which connects

Aydın Aydın ( ''EYE-din''; ; formerly named ''Güzelhisar; Greek: Τράλλεις)'' 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 Büyük Menderes River (ancient ...

to Sultanhisar. The distance to Sultanhisar is and to Aydın is . The settlement was founded in 1730 during

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

era. In 1972 it was declared a seat of township. Major economic activity is farming. Main crops are figs, strawberries, olives, citrus and cotton.Mayor's page
The ancient site of

Acharaca Acharaca () was a village of ancient Lydia, Anatolia on the road from Tralles (modern Aydın, Turkey) to Nysa on the Maeander, with a Ploutonion or a temple of Pluto, and a cave, named Charonium (), where the sick were healed under the direction ...

is nearby.

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Neighbourhoods in Sultanhisar District {{Aydın-geo-stub