Zeytinli is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Edremit,

Balıkesir Province Balıkesir Province ( tr, ) is a province in northwestern Turkey with coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, Aegean. Its adjacent provinces are Çanakkale Province, Çanakkale to the west, İzmir Province, İzmir to the southw ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. Its population is 3,431 (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. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the villages (and also subdistricts) are usually too small to have ...

''). Zeytinli is between Akçay and Edremit. In the 1990s, with Akçay being recognized throughout the country as a holiday neighborhood, Zeytinli gained importance and developed its tourism sector. The district is named after the most important economic activity of the region, zeytin ("olives"). The main Zeytinli neighborhood is on the foothills of Kazdağı (Mount Ida). The coastline of Zeytinli has been developed with the construction of many summer houses. Zeytinli has a market and many shops known for selling olive oil. Zeytinli hosts the Zeytinli Rock Festival, which saw around 90 artists perform in 2019, mostly from Turkey. These included Şebnem Ferah, Athena, Teoman and Selda Bağcan. The festival was attended by 32,000 people in 2019.

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{{Edremit District, Balıkesir Neighbourhoods in Edremit District, Balıkesir