Sarıgöl is a municipality and
district
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of
Manisa Province
Manisa Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in western Turkey. Its area is 13,339 km2, and its population is 1,468,279 (2022). Its neighboring provinces are İzmi ...
,
Turkey
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. Its area is 432 km
2, and its population is 35,537 (2022).
The town lies at an elevation of .
History
Sarıgöl is a small town located between the provinces of
Denizli
Denizli is a city in Aegean Region, Aegean Turkey, and seat of the province of Denizli Province, Denizli. The city forms the urban part of the districts Merkezefendi and Pamukkale, Denizli, Pamukkale, with a population of 691 783 in 2024.
Denizl ...
and
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 ...
. According to some historians, it has been an important city throughout history. There was an ancient city called Callatebus () in the vicinity of today's Sarıgöl. The city of Kallatebos (Callatebus) was mentioned by
Herodotus
Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...
in his ''
Histories
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* the plural of history
* ''Histories'' (Herodotus), by Herodotus
* ''The Histories'', by Timaeus
* ''The Histories'' (Polybius), by Polybius
* ''Histories'' by Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) ...
'' 7th book's 31st paragraph. The city was between Philadelphia (Alaşehir) and Hierapolis (Pamukkale).
Composition
There are 35
neighbourhoods
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in Sarıgöl District:
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
* Afşar
* Ahmetağa
* Alemşahlı
* Aşağıkoçaklar
* Ayan
* Bağlıca
* Bahadırlar
* Baharlar
* Bereketli
* Beyharmanı
* Çanakçı
* Çavuşlar
* Çimentepe
* Cumhuriyet
* Dadağlı
* Dindarlı
* Doğuşlar
* Emcelli
* Güneydamları
* Günyaka
* Kahramanlar
* Karacaali
* Kızılçukur
* Konak
* Mimarsinan
* Özpınar
* Selimiye
* Şeyhdavutlar
* Sığırtmaçlı
* Siteler
* Tırazlar
* Yeniköy
* Yeşiltepe
* Yukarıkoçaklar
* Ziyanlar
References
External links
District governor's official website
District municipality's official website
Road map of Sarıgöl and environs
Various images of Sarıgöl
Populated places in Manisa Province
Districts of Manisa Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
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