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Gördesli Makbule
Gördesli Makbule (1902–1922), also known as Makbule Efe, was a woman guerrilla from Turkey, one of the heroes of the National Liberation War. She fought as a member of Kuva-yı Milliye against the Greek invasion. Early life Makbule was born in Gördes, Manisa. She had a large family who owned a farm and some land. She learned horse-riding and shooting at an early age like many other women in her town. Military experience She participated in military resistance in 1922, and fought in and around Demirci, Gördes, Simav, Bigadiç ve Sındırgı Sındırgı, formerly Koruköy and Carseae (), is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,387 km2, and its population is 32,408 (2022). The mayor is Serkan Sak ( CHP). A carpet festival is held in Sındırgı .... She was shot aged 20. Commemoration Her grave was discovered by Zekeriya Özdemir in Gördes in 2000. Commemoration events were organised in Gördes to mark the 100th year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gördes
Gördes is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. Its area is 902 km2, and its population is 26,458 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of . History Gördes has been held by the Persians, Macedonians, Roman and Byzantine empires, and in 1071 AD passed to the Turks. From 1867 until 1922, Gördes was part of the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Composition There are 64 neighbourhoods in Gördes District: * Adnan Menderes * Akpınar * Atatürk * Balıklı * Bayat * Beğel * Beğenler * Benlieli * Beşeylül * Börez * Boyalı * Çağlayan * Çatalarmut * Çiçekli * Çiğiller * Cuma * Dalkara * Dargıl * Deliçoban * Dereçiftlik * Dikilitaş * Divan * Doğanpınar * Dutluca * Efendili * Evciler * Fundacık * Gülpınar * Güneşli * Hüseynibaba * Kabakoz * Kalemoğlu * Karaağaç * Karakeçili * Karayağcı * Karayakup * Kaşıkçı * Kayacık * Kılcanlar * Kıranköy * Kıymık * Kızıldam * Kobaklar * Korubaşı * Köseler * Kürekçi * Kuşluk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turkish people, Turks, while ethnic Kurds in Turkey, Kurds are the Minorities in Turkey, largest ethnic minority. Officially Secularism in Turkey, a secular state, Turkey has Islam in Turkey, a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya. First inhabited by modern humans during the Late Paleolithic, present-day Turkey was home to List of ancient peoples of Anatolia, various ancient peoples. The Hattians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish War Of Independence
, strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarihi'', Türkiye İş̧ Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2008, p. 339. , strength2 = 60,000 30,000 20,000 7,000 , casualties1 = 13,000 killedKate Fleet, Suraiya Faroqhi, Reşat Kasaba: The Cambridge History of Turkey Volume 4'', Cambridge University Press, 2008, , p. 159.22,690 died of diseaseSabahattin Selek: ''Millî Mücadele – Cilt I (engl.: National Struggle – Edition I)'', Burçak yayınevi, 1963, p. 109. 5,362 died of wounds or other non-combat causes35,000 wounded7,000 prisonersAhmet Özdemir''Savaş esirlerinin Milli mücadeledeki yeri'', Ankara University, Türk İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü Atatürk Yolu Dergisi, Edition 2, Number 6, 1990, pp. 328–332Total: 83,052 casualties , casualties2 = 24,240 kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuva-yi Milliye
The Kuva-yi Milliye (; 'National Forces' or 'Nationalist Forces') were irregular Turkish militia forces active in the early period of the Turkish War of Independence. These irregular forces emerged after the occupation of the parts of Turkey by the Allied forces in accordance with the Armistice of Mudros. Later, ''Kuva-yi Milliye'' were integrated to the regular army (''Kuva-yi Nizamiye'') of the Grand National Assembly. Some historians call this period (1918–20) of the Turkish War of Independence the "Kuva-yi Milliye phase".. Yılı Özel Sayısı. History In the Armistice of Mudros, Ottoman Empire was divided between the Allies, where the Greeks occupied the west, the British occupied the capital and southeast, and the Italians and the French occupied the south of the country. When the atrocities committed by the Greeks in the places they occupied became known among the people of Afyonkarahisar, the people began to harbor great hatred and anger against the Greeks. Rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Invasion Of Anatolia
Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek **Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC) **Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC **Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity **Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople **Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD) *Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language *Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church *Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity *Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD *Greek mythology, a body of myths or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manisa
Manisa () is a city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province, lying approximately 40 km northeast of the major city of İzmir. The city forms the urban part of the districts Şehzadeler and Yunusemre, with a population of 385,452 in 2022. Modern Manisa is a booming center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port city and the regional metropolitan center of İzmir and by its fertile hinterland rich in quantity and variety of agricultural production. In fact, İzmir's proximity also adds a particular dimension to all aspects of life's pace in Manisa in the form of a dense traffic of daily commuters between the two cities, separated as they are by a half-hour drive served by a fine six-lane highway nevertheless requiring attention at all times due to its curves and the rapid ascent (sea-level to more than 500 meters at Sabuncubeli Pass) across Mount Sipylus's mythic scenery. The historic part of Manisa s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demirci
Demirci is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,321 km2, and its population is 36,620 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of . History From 1867 until 1922, Demirci was part of the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. At the 2013 reorganisation, it lost part of its territory to the district of Köprübaşı. Composition There are 101 neighbourhoods in Demirci District: Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. * Ahatlar * Ahmetler * Akdere * Akıncılar * Alaağaç * Armutlu * Ayvaalanı * Azizbey * Bahçeler * Bardakçı * Bayramşah * Beyazıt * Boyacık * Bozcaatlı * Bozköy * Büyükkıran * Çağıllar * Camii Atik * Çamköy * Çamlıca * Çanakçı * Çandır * Çardaklı * Çataloluk * Cumhuriyet * Danişmentler * Demirci * Dr.Akarsu * Durh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simav
Simav is a town in Kütahya Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Simav District.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023. Its population is 26,872 (2022). The town is located on the Simav River. Geography Simav is located 93 km west-southwest of , the province capital. It is located on the south side of the Simav valley. To the south, a steep sep ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigadiç
Bigadiç is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,108 km2, and its population is 48,917 (2022). As former Ancient bishopric of Achyraus, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Bigadiç has the largest Boron reserves of both Turkey and the world. Also, villages of Bigadiç have natural thermal water reserves which contains Selenium and Sulfur. Etymology The oldest known name of Bigadiç is ancient Greek Achyraos (Αχυράους in Ancient Greek), Latin(ized) Achyraus, renamed during the Byzantine era Pegadia (Πηγάδια), which means "springs, wells", from which it evolved to Begadia, to Begados, and eventually to the turkified name Bugadıç. Some support the popular etymology that Boğadıç would mean "Bull meadow" (''Boğa'' being the Turkish word for a bull). Composition There are 80 neighbourhoods in Bigadiç District: * 4 Eylül * Abacı * Adalı * Akyar * Alanköy * Altınlar * Aşağıçamlı * Aşağıgöcek * Bab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sındırgı
Sındırgı, formerly Koruköy and Carseae (), is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,387 km2, and its population is 32,408 (2022). The mayor is Serkan Sak ( CHP). A carpet festival is held in Sındırgı town in every fall season around September, and it is called International Yağcıbedir Festival. The province is also famous for its kolonya, a scented perfume used to freshen the hands. Composition There are 75 neighbourhoods in Sındırgı District: Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023. * Akçakısrak * Aktaş * Alacaatlı * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zekeriya Özdemir
Zekeriya is the Turkish version of the Arabic masculine given name Zakariya and is mostly used in Turkey. It is a reference to one of the prophets mentioned in the Quran. Notable people with the name are as follows: *Zekeriya Aknazarov (1924–2000), Soviet-Bashkir statesman and politician *Zekeriya Alp (born 1948), Turkish retired football player and businessman *Zekeriya Güçlü (1972–2010), Turkish wrestler *Zekeriya Sertel (1890–1980), Turkish journalist *Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu (born 1966; Batman) is a Kurdish Turkish politician and lawyer who led the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party from June 2013 to May 2018 and again from June 2021 on. Biography Born in 1966 in the city of Batman in the so ... (born 1966), Turkish-Kurdish politician and lawyer References {{DEFAULTSORT:Zekeriya Turkish masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
