Gölbaşı is a municipality and

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. Its area is 1,364 km², and its population is 150,047 (2022). It is south of the city of

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. Its elevation is . The district includes the Mogan and Eymir lakes. Although the lakes are polluted and infested with mosquitoes, the picnic areas and lakeside restaurants of Gölbaşı serve as a popular retreat from the city for the people of Ankara. A number of government departments have accommodations here, and the town is slowly but surely joining up with the city as the green space between the two disappears.

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have their satellite ground control in the area.

History

Archaeological research in the area has revealed since 3000 BC a succession of civilısations including

Hittites The Hittites () were an Anatolian peoples, Anatolian Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of the Bronze Age in West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in mo ...

Phrygians The Phrygians (Greek: Φρύγες, ''Phruges'' or ''Phryges'') were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity. Ancient Greek authors used "Phrygian" as an umbrella term t ...

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, Romans, and Byzantines. Excavated sites include Selametli, Tuluntaş, Tuluntaş-Ortaçayır, Kızılcaşar-Gökçepınar, Karagedik, Bacılar, Bezirhane Kültepe, Bezirhane-Kepenekçi and İncek-Harmantepe. The area has long been occupied by Turks, and it was here that

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hid his elephants in the woods before the

Battle of Ankara The Battle of Ankara or Angora () was fought on 28 July 1402, at the Çubuk plain near Ankara, between the forces of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I and the emir of the Timurid Empire, Timur. The battle was a major victory for Timur, and it led to ...

Places of interest

* Tulumtaş caves - from Ankara, of limestone cave with stalagmites and stalactites * Gölbaşı Ground Station, satellite telecommunication center of Türksat, *

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() operated by the

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(TAI), * Gölbaşı International Billiards Complex with the seay of the Turkish Billiards Federation.

Demographics

The population of Gölbaşı city is growing very fast. The main reasons are: a high natural growth rate, migration from rural areas (

rural exodus Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the Human migration, migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas. It is urbanization seen from the rural perspective. In Industriali ...

) and immigration from the city of

Composition

There are 54

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in Gölbaşı District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023. * Ahiboz * Akörençarşak * Altunçanak * Bağiçi * Bahçelievler * Ballıkpınar * Bezirhane * Boyalık *

Çayırlı Çayırlı () is a municipality (belde) and seat of Çayırlı District of Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, w ...

* Çeltek * Çimşit * Dikilitaş * Emirler * Eymir * Gaziosmanpaşa * Gökçehüyük * Gölbek * Günalan * Hacıhasan * Hacılar * Hacımuratlı * Halaçlı * İkizce * İncek * Karaali Merkez * Karaali Yazlık * Karacaören * Karagedik Aydın * Karagedik Ercan * Karaoğlan * Karşıyaka * Kırıklı * Kızılcaşar * Koparan * Mahmatlı * Mahmatlıbahçe * Oğulbey * Örencik * Oyaca Akarsu * Oyaca Yeşilçam * Şafak * Seğmenler * Selametli Şehit Emrah * Soğulcak * Subaşı * Taşpınar * Tepeyurt * Topaklı * Tulumtaş * Velihimmetli * Yağlıpınar * Yavrucuk * Yaylabağ * Yurtbeyi

References

External links

District governor's official website

District municipality's official website
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