Peksimet is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

Bodrum Bodrum () is a town and district of Muğla Province, Turkey. About 200 thousand people live in the district, which covers 650 km2 and includes the town. It is a port town at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova. Known in ancient times as Hal ...

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. Its population is 2,575 (2022). It is an inland village on the

Peninsula. It is 7 km from

Turgutreis Turgutreis is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey. Its population is 6,041 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''belde''). It is the second largest town on the Bodrum peninsula. Th ...

. Its neighbour village is . It is easy to drive through Peksimet without realizing it, but every driver can recognize the location of this village, thanks to a group of

windmills A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills), pump water, generate electricity, or drive other machinery. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; ...

on the hill.

History

Peksimet is also the Turkish word for twice-baked bread (similar to a hard

rusk A rusk is a hard, dry Biscuit#Biscuits in British usage, biscuit or a twice-baked bread. It is sometimes used as a teether for babies. In some cultures, rusk is made of cake rather than bread: this is sometimes referred to as cake rusk. In the ...

), and Peksimet got its name because the villagers supplied this bread to Turkish soldiers during the

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 tarih ...

(1919–1923), and the locals became known for its baking.

References

Fishing communities Neighbourhoods in Bodrum District {{Muğla-geo-stub