Ödemiş district
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Ödemiş () is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,019 km2, and its population is 132,740 (2022). It is located 113 km southeast of the city of İzmir.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Ödemiş
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Golcuk.Odemis.DSC03393.JPG
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Lake Gölcük on Bozdağ Mountains
- Turkey place.image_map
- İzmir location Ödemiş.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Ödemiş District in İzmir Province
- Turkey place.province
- İzmir
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Mustafa Turan
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 1019
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 136
- Turkey place.population_total
- 132740
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 35750
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0232
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Official name
- Ödemiş
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- İzmir Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 132511
- Area
- 1019
- Elevation
- 119
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Efeler district
- Official website
- odemis.gov.tr
- Image
- Hacı Abdi Ağa Mosque.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- urban population
- 132769
- topic's main category
- Category:Ödemiş District
- Commons category
- Ödemiş
- postal code
- 35750
- social media followers
- 3404
- rural population
- 88198
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Composition
- Climate
- Transport
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Ödemiş () is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,019 km2, and its population is 132,740 (2022). It is located 113 km southeast of the city of İzmir.
About 4 km north of Ödemiş town are the ruins of Hypaepa. The historical importance of the region is also reflected by the small town of Birgi, east of Ödemiş, which was the capital of the Aydınids, which has examples of Seljuq and Ottoman architecture. Birgi has been on the tentative UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list since 2012, and points of interest here include Çakırağa Mansion, İmam-i Birgivi Medrese and Sultanşah Mausoleum. Ödemiş is famous for its potatoes, which has the best quality in Turkey, as well as its "Ödemiş Kebab". The city is the biggest potato grower of Turkey with its annual 350,000 tons of potato production.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ödemiş district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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