Aydin City Guide
Aydın province, which is one of our provinces located in the west of Turkey, is located in the Aegean Region of our country. Having a coast to the Aegean Sea, having the Büyük Menderes river and being one of the important points of Turkey in terms of tourism (Kuşadası, Didim) have made Aydın a very critical city. Due to the Büyük Menderes river and its plain, it is also in a very developed state in terms of agriculture.
Aydın is the city where the first railway was established in Turkey, and Turkey's longest tunnel is here again. There are many historical monuments in Aydın. According to 2010 TUIK data, there are 17 districts, 36 municipalities and 492 villages together with the central district. Aydın, which was built on the fertile plains irrigated by the Büyük Menderes River thousands of years ago, is one of the first cities where nature embraces culture and tourism started in Turkey. Aydın has magnificent natural beauties with its unique ancient cities and temples.
Due to its geographical location, the city has hosted various civilizations and each civilization has left its own traces in the region. Aydın, who trained the natural philosophers Thales, Anaksimender and Anaksimenes, the historian and geographer Hekatais, the city planner and architect Hippodamos and Isidoros in the leading cities of ancient times such as Aphrodisias, Miletus, Alinda, Didyma, Nysa, Priene and Magnesia; It is one of the leading cities of Turkey in terms of tourism with its coastal districts such as Kuşadası and Didim. Today, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Aydın, meet the traces of the past in ancient cities, and observe nature with its unique flora and fauna as much as possible.
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Aydın History
Apart from the Hittites, it also hosted Spartans and Persians. Then it came under the rule of Alexander the Great. Aydın, which is also home to the Roman Empire, has been called by many names throughout history. Aydın, which came under the domination of the Turks in the 11th century, later came under the rule of Byzantium. In 1280, first the Menteşe Principality and then the Aydınoğlu Principality took over. After this date, this region was called Aydın Güzelhisar. In later times, it remained as Aydın.
During the Lydian period, the city of Tralles was a distribution center where trade goods from Caria, Cilicia, Iran, Syria and the Far East were collected and sent to the Aegean port.
Phrygians established the first great state in Anatolia. B.C. They settled on the upper plateau of Büyük Menderes in 1200. It is known that after the attack of the Illyrians, of which the Phrygians were from the Thracian tribes, they came through the Straits and destroyed the Hittite Kingdom.
lonlar's BC Miletus was the most important of the cities they founded on the plains of Gediz and Büyük Menderes in 1200. The Ionians made important strides in philosophy. Mathematician and astronomy scholar Tales suggested that the main element of all things is water; He predicted the solar eclipse in the war between the Lydians and the Modians. Another scholar of Miletus, Anoximandros, claimed that the beginning of everything was “infinity-eternity”.
B.C. As a result of the invasion of Persians from Iran in the 5th century, a new and unique cultural synthesis called Greco-Persian was formed in Western Anatolian cities, which met with eastern culture.
B.C. The region, which was under Roman rule in the 1st and 2nd centuries, showed important developments in economic, commercial and cultural areas. As the Romans adopted the local culture and developed resources, roads and trade, the ancient cities in the region, especially Ephesus, Milet, Tralles, Aphrodisias, developed and were equipped with large-scale monumental structures.
10th century The Turkmens, who came with the Turkish migrations that have continued since then, found the rural areas almost empty. The rulers of the Aydın Principality gave importance to culture, art and science. In addition to architectural works such as mosques, madrasahs and tombs that have survived in the region, there are valuable manuscripts that have survived and are in various libraries.
Aydınoğulları Principality joined the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 14th century. In 1425 II. The city, which was joined to the Ottoman lands by Murat, became a sanjak of the Anatolian province. Aydın, an important cultural center of Western Anatolia, witnessed many uprisings at the end of the 16th century. It became a Müşirlik during the reign of Mahmut II, a province after the Tanzimat, and a province in 1867. The first railway of Anatolia is built between Aydın and İzmir and put into operation. It was occupied by the Greeks on May 27, 1919, and the city, which was taken back on June 30, 1919, was occupied again. The city was liberated from the invaders on September 7, 1922.
Aydın Population
According to the census conducted in 2012, the population of Aydın is 1,06,541. Of this population, 611,846 live in cities and 394,695 live in rural areas. According to the 1997 census, 431,304 of the general population of 897,821 live in villages. Considering that some of the population living in cities is also engaged in agriculture, it is seen that 57% (511,758) of the total population is agricultural population.