Koçarlı is a municipality and
district
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of
Aydın Province
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,
Turkey
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. Its area is 455 km
2, and its population is 21,832 (2022).
It is from the city of
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 ...
.
Geography
Koçarlı is a small town and although there is an institute of
Adnan Menderes University
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and thus a small student population, the population of the area is shrinking as people take their families to seek education and careers in Turkey's larger cities. This is an attractive district of agricultural villages in the middle of the
Büyük Menderes River
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valley on hillsides above the Koçarlı River. The main crops are cotton, olives and pine nuts, other activities include grazing animals and producing other crops including figs and chestnuts. Industry is basically factories for processing these crops and repairing farm implements with the exception of an aluminum processing plant nearby.
Composition
There are 52
neighbourhoods
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...
in Koçarlı District:
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
* Adnan Menderes
Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes (; 1899 – 17 September 1961) was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960. He was one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of ...
* Akmescit
* Atatürk
* Bağarcık
* Bağcılar
Bağcılar is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 23 km2, and its population is 740,069 (2022). It is located on the East Thrace, European side of Istanbul, near the ...
* Birci
* Bıyıklı
* Boğaziçi
* Boydere
* Büyükdere
* Çakırbeyli
* Çakmar
* Çallı
* Çeşmeköy
* Cincin
* Çulhalar
* Dedeköy
* Dereköy
* Esentepe
* Evsekler
* Gaffarlar
* Gözkaya
* Güdüşlü
* Gündoğan
* Hacıhamzalar
* Halilbeyli
* Haydarlı
* Karaağaç
* Karacaören
* Karadut
* Kasaplar
* Kızılcabölük
* Kızılkaya
* Kullar
* Kuşlarbeleni
* Mersinbeleni
* Orhaniye
* Orta
* Şahinciler
* Sapalan
* Satılar
* Şenköy
* Sobuca
* Taşköy
* Tekeli
* Tığıllar
* Timinciler
* Yağcıdere
* Yağhanlı
* Yenimahalle
Yenimahalle is a municipality and metropolitan district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 219 km2, and its population is 704,652 (2022). It is a fast-growing urban residential district of the city of Ankara, Turkey's capital. Its elev ...
* Yeniköy
* Zeytinköy
Places of interest
* Koçarlı is notable for a mosque, tower, and other landmark buildings built by the 18th century - 19th century feudal lords (''derebey
A derebey () was a feudalism, feudal lord in Anatolia and the Black Sea, Pontic areas of Lazistan and Adjara in the 18th century, with considerable independence from the central government of the Ottoman Empire.
Derebeys were required to provide m ...
'') of the region who were native to Koçarlı, the Cihanoğlu family. Their biggest monument is the castle in the village of Cincin.
* The ruins of the ancient city of Amyzon (Mazın), in the village of Akmescit, 30km south of Koçarlı.
* The Traditional Pine Nut Festival attracts many visitors to the town, held every year at the end of May.
References
External links
the municipality
the district governorate
Populated places in Aydın Province
Districts of Aydın Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
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