Karaburun
Karaburun | |
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District and municipality | |
Coordinates: 38°38′N 26°31′E / 38.633°N 26.517°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | İzmir |
Government | |
• Mayor | İlkay Girgin Erdoğan (CHP) |
Area | 421 km2 (163 sq mi) |
Elevation | 50 m (160 ft) |
Population (2022)[1] | 12,200 |
• Density | 29/km2 (75/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Area code | 0232 |
Website | www |
Karaburun (
to its west.Karaburun region is comparatively much less visited than Çeşme located in its south, its rate of urbanization at 20 per cent is the lowest across İzmir Province, although it provides an anticlimax to its southern neighbor and the associated attractions especially for those who want to escape the trails of mass tourism. The coasts of the peninsula have beautiful bays and pebble or sand beaches as yet often undiscovered by outsiders, although there is one
Main features
The distance between Karaburun and İzmir center by way of land is 100 km (approximately 60 miles) and there are regular bus services and a three-lane modern highway until the toll near Çeşme. The rest of the road is narrow and curvy in some places and it may take up to two hours to reach Karaburun from İzmir. The country road is traced northwards along the eastern coast of the peninsula to reach Mordoğan first, which is, aside from Karaburun, the district's only other depending township with own municipality. After Karaburun, the same road continues towards the tip of the peninsula from where it heads west to reach the village of Küçükbahçe.
History
The oldest name known for the region was
Karaburun is the most recently constituted district of İzmir, although the town of Karaburun was made into a municipality already in 1902. From 1867 until 1922, Karaburun was part of
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Economy
Agriculture, fishing and livestock breeding remain the principal activities on which Karaburun's economy is based. The average yearly income level per inhabitant for the district was calculated at 3,673 US Dollars in 2007. Karaburun's trade relations with the outside world abroad remain modest, with total exports recorded as 26,319 US Dollars realized in 2007, mostly flowers, with also some exports of olive and olive oil and
The total number of residences in Karaburun district was counted as 8,912, an important part constituted by secondary residences owned by seasonal inhabitants. The total accommodation capacity of the district is 982 beds, in which the depending municipality of Mordoğan has a sizable share. The level of literacy in Karaburun nears hundred per cent, and the district is advantaged by the rather comfortable number of students, 12 in 2007, per teacher. There was one doctor for 1,447 patients in Karaburun in 2007.
Other information
Nearer to Karaburun is the abandoned village of Sazak whose inhabitants were subject to the 1923 Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the frame of the Treaty of Lausanne. Sazak today is a ghost town rarely visited by tourists from Karaburun.
The whole district is very quiet during winter when the population of Karaburun center falls back to the usual 2,500, with the owners of summer houses gone. Nevertheless, its spectacular gorges and heights makes the peninsula a favorite destination among trekkers in all seasons.
There is talk since years on starting ferry services from İzmir to these two centers of the peninsula, which would be quite practical by allowing visitors to avoid the difficult end-portion of the land route, but the project meets the opposition of the dolmuş lobby.
Composition
There are 16
See also
- Karaburun Peninsula
- September 2006 Karaburun, Turkey migrant boat disaster
References
- ^ TÜİK. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 174-175
- ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
External links
- "Karaburun, 30 p." (PDF) (in Turkish). İzmir Chamber of Commerce. 2007.
Sources
- Şevket Işık (2002). Karaburun Yarımadasının tarihsel coğrafyası [Historio-geography of Karaburun Peninsula] (in Turkish). ISBN 975-483-543-8.
- Rosie Ayliffe and co. (2003). The rough guide to Turkey. ISBN 1-84353-071-6.