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Ağva Yeşilçay İstanbul Province
Ağva is a neighbourhood and resort town in the municipality and district of Şile, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,150 (2022). History The area around Ağva was a part of ancient Bithynia. During the Ottoman era, Turkmen people were settled around Ağva. Up to 20th century, a sizable Greek population also dwelled in Ağva. However, according to population exchange between Greece and Turkey agreement in the 1920s, they were replaced by Turks from Greece. It was an independent municipality until it was merged into the municipality of Şile in 2008. Geography Ağva is a coastal place at Black Sea, situated between two rivers, Göksu in the west and Yeşilçay in the east. In fact, the name Ağva means "between the rivers". Yeşilçay is known as one of the main sources of Istanbul urban water system, the Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant. Its distance to Istanbul centrum is and to Şile . Living With a picturesque scenery, Ağva is one of the popular resorts of ...
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Åžile
Åžile is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 800 km2, and its population is 43,464 (2022). Bordering Åžile is the province of Kocaeli Province, Kocaeli (districts of Gebze, Körfez, Derince, Kandıra) to the east and south, and Istanbul districts of Pendik to the south, Çekmeköy to the southwest, and Beykoz to the west. The popular resort town AÄŸva is also a part of Åžile. However, between June and September, the population rapidly increases because of the many residents of Istanbul who have summer houses in Åžile. History The word ''ÅŸile'' means marjoram in Turkish language, Turkish. The word's etymology is said to be Greek language, Greek. There has been a fishing village here since 700 BC and a lighthouse since the Ottoman period. According to the Ottoman General Census of 1881/82-1893, the kaza of Åžile had a total population of 16.770, consisting of 10.314 Muslims, 6.447 Ottoman Greeks, Greek ...
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Ağva İstanbul Province
Ağva is a neighbourhood and resort town in the municipality and district of Şile, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,150 (2022). History The area around Ağva was a part of ancient Bithynia. During the Ottoman era, Turkmen people were settled around Ağva. Up to 20th century, a sizable Greek population also dwelled in Ağva. However, according to population exchange between Greece and Turkey agreement in the 1920s, they were replaced by Turks from Greece. It was an independent municipality until it was merged into the municipality of Şile in 2008. Geography Ağva is a coastal place at Black Sea, situated between two rivers, Göksu in the west and Yeşilçay in the east. In fact, the name Ağva means "between the rivers". Yeşilçay is known as one of the main sources of Istanbul urban water system, the Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant. Its distance to Istanbul centrum is and to Şile . Living With a picturesque scenery, Ağva is one of the popular resorts of ...
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Populated Coastal Places In Turkey
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the are ...
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Seaside Resorts In Turkey
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Åžile Cloth
Åžile is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 800 km2, and its population is 43,464 (2022). Bordering Åžile is the province of Kocaeli (districts of Gebze, Körfez, Derince, Kandıra) to the east and south, and Istanbul districts of Pendik to the south, Çekmeköy to the southwest, and Beykoz to the west. The popular resort town AÄŸva is also a part of Åžile. However, between June and September, the population rapidly increases because of the many residents of Istanbul who have summer houses in Åžile. History The word ''ÅŸile'' means marjoram in Turkish. The word's etymology is said to be Greek. There has been a fishing village here since 700 BC and a lighthouse since the Ottoman period. According to the Ottoman General Census of 1881/82-1893, the kaza of Åžile had a total population of 16.770, consisting of 10.314 Muslims, 6.447 Greeks, 3 Armenians and 6 foreign citizens. The boundaries of Åžile were expanded by the addition of the villa ...
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2009 Turkish Local Elections
Local elections were held in Turkey on 29 March 2009. The overall winner was the ruling party Justice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the 2007 general election. The leading opposition party, the social democratic Kemalist CHP, increased its vote share, as did a number of smaller parties including the SP, DTP and BBP, whose party leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu had died in a helicopter crash four days before the election. The third largest party, the Turkish nationalist MHP, enjoyed a more modest vote surge. The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP. The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır, İzmir and Urfa,''Hürriyet Daily News.'"Turkey's AKP loses against independent Fakibaba"/ref> and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.Al Jazeera English/ref> There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported ...
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