Develi
Develi, formerly known as Averak or Everek, is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,892 km2, and its population is 66,840 (2022).
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Develi
- Turkey place.image_map
- Kayseri location Develi.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Develi District in Kayseri Province
- Turkey place.image_logo
- Develi_Municipality_Logo.jpg
- Turkey place.province
- Kayseri
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Mehmet Cabbar
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 1892
- Turkey place.population_total
- 66840
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 38400
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Develi, formerly known as Averak or Everek, is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,892 km2, and its population is 66,840 (2022).
==History== The historical name of the town is Everek and it is called Averak (ruin) in Armenian. A historian and geographer who lived in the fourteenth century, gives the name of the butcher Mustavfi as Davalu. According to him, it was a medium-sized city and its walls were rebuilt by Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin. In the work called Cihannüma, written in the seventeenth century, the town is called Davahlu.
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