Gölmarmara is a municipality and district of Manisa Province , Turkey . Its area is 310 km, and its population is 15,193 (2022). It lies at a distance of 66 km (41 mi) from the province center of Manisa . The town owes its name to the nearby Lake Marmara , called under various names throughout history. The town of Gölmarmara itself was a mere village in Ottoman times cited under such names as "Marmaracık" or "Mermere" . It was made into a township with its own municipality depending the district center of Akhisar at the time of the foundation of the Turkish Republic (1923) and in 1987 a district center by its own right and under the same name, Gölmarmara. Gölmarmara lies at an elevation of 91 m (299 ft).
9-455: Agricultural lands and forest lands each occupy roughly around 11,500 hectares in the district area, with a few thousand in the fertile plain of the Gediz River valley remaining unused. Lake Marmara, aside from being a recreational center for the province as a whole, is also an important source for fishing and agricultural irrigation. Slightly lower than the town center at 79 m (259 ft),
18-801: Is Halime Hatun Religious Complex built by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed III during his tenure in Manisa (1583-1595) in the name of his wet nurse and his future grand vizier Tekeli Lala Mehmed Pasha 's mother-in-law Halime Hatun. In 2015 an important archaeological discovery was made at Kaymakçı : a Middle and Late Bronze Age city (2000-1200 BC) whose area was approximately 4 times larger than that of Troy. There are 21 neighbourhoods in Gölmarmara District: Gediz River The Gediz River ( Turkish : Gediz Nehri , Turkish pronunciation: [ˈɡediz] ), anciently known as
27-639: Is within the area of Manisa Province and a smaller downstream section within İzmir Province. The Gediz Delta is important as a nature reserve and is home to rare bird species. However, the reserve suffers from water shortages due to heavy demands from irrigation projects, connected to the Demirköprü Dam . High level of urbanization and industrialization along its basin have caused the Gediz River to suffer severe pollution, particularly by sand and gravel quarries and leather industry. These factors contributed to
36-726: The Hermus River ( Ancient Greek : Έρμος), is the second-longest river in Anatolia flowing into the Aegean Sea . From its source of Mount Murat in Kütahya Province , it flows generally west for 401 km (249 mi) to the Gediz River Delta in the Gulf of İzmir . The ancient Greek name of the river was Hermos (Ἕρμος), Latinized as Hermus. The name of the river Gediz may be related to
45-644: The Lydian proper name Cadys; Gediz is also the name of a town near the river's sources. The name "Gediz" may also be encountered as a male given name in Turkey. The Gediz is one of the two candidates for the Hittite placename Seha River , the other being the Bakırçay . The Hermos separated Aeolia from Ionia , except for Ionic Phocaea , which was north of the Hermos. The valley of
54-519: The Hermos was the heartland of the ancient Lydian Empire and overlooking the valley was the Lydian capital Sardis . In Turkey 's Aegean Region , Gediz River's length is second only to Büyük Menderes River whose flow is roughly parallel at a distance of slightly more than a hundred kilometers to the south. Gediz River rises from Murat Mountain and Şaphane Mountain in Kütahya Province and flows through Uşak , Manisa and İzmir Provinces . It joins
63-507: The lake is also an Important Bird Area . There are six primary schools and two high schools in Gölmarmara, with a total teacher's corpus of 117 and a student's corpus of 3,094. A small professional higher school depending Celal Bayar University is also located in Gölmarmara, its academic corpus composed of six teachers providing education higher education with a professional focus to 144 students. The town's most important historical building
72-606: The river's formerly rich fish reserves to become a thing of the past in recent years. Demirk%C3%B6pr%C3%BC Dam Below is a partial list of dams in Turkey separated by region. There are 45 dams in the Aegean Region , western part of Turkey. There are 55 dams in the Black Sea Region , northern part of Turkey. There are 75 dams in the Central Anatolia Region , central part of Turkey. There are 40 dams in
81-461: The sea in the northern section of the Gulf of İzmir , close to the gulf's mouth, near the village of Yenibağarası in Foça district, south of the center of the district. The Gediz Basin lies between northern latitudes of 38°04’–39°13’ and southern longitudes of 26°42’–29°45’. It covers 2.2% of the total area of Turkey. Larger part of the alluvial plain called under the same name as the river ( Gediz Plain )
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