Kemalpaşa

Coordinates: 38°25′40″N 27°24′58″E / 38.42778°N 27.41611°E / 38.42778; 27.41611
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Kemalpaşa
District and municipality
Map showing Kemalpaşa District in İzmir Province
Map showing Kemalpaşa District in İzmir Province
Kemalpaşa is located in Turkey
Kemalpaşa
Kemalpaşa
Location in Turkey
Kemalpaşa is located in İzmir
Kemalpaşa
Kemalpaşa
Kemalpaşa (İzmir)
Coordinates: 38°25′40″N 27°24′58″E / 38.42778°N 27.41611°E / 38.42778; 27.41611
CountryTurkey
Provinceİzmir
Government
 • MayorRıdvan Karakayalı (CHP)
Area
681 km2 (263 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
114,250
 • Density170/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)
Area code0232
Websitewww.izmir-kemalpasa.bel.tr

Kemalpaşa is a municipality and

cherries being of nationwide renown (known as Kemalpaşa kirazı in Turkish) and exported. Literacy is at a high level at 90%, and the neighboring Bornova, where Ege University
is based, serves as a nearby pool in terms of trained personnel.

Administration

A township depending the sanjak (subprovince) of Saruhan (Manisa) until the late-Ottoman times, the town was attached to the subprovince of İzmir in 1900 and a municipal administration was constituted the year after.

There are 49

neighbourhoods in Kemalpaşa District:[4]

  • 8 Eylül
  • Akalan
  • Ansızca
  • Armutlu 85. Yıl Cumhuriyet
  • Armutlu Hürriyet
  • Aşağı Yenmiş
  • Aşağıkızılca
  • Atatürk
  • Bağyurdu 29 Ekim
  • Bağyurdu Kazımpaşa
  • Bağyurdu Kemal Atatürk
  • Bağyurdu Yeni
  • Bayosb
  • Bayramlı
  • Beşpınar
  • Çambel
  • Çınarköy
  • Çiniliköy
  • Cumalı
  • Damlacık
  • Dereköy
  • Gökçeyurt
  • Gökyaka
  • Hamzababa
  • Kamberler
  • Kızılüzüm
  • Kuyucak
  • Mehmet Akif Ersoy
  • Nazarköy
  • Ören 75. Yıl Cumhuriyet
  • Ören Egemen
  • Örnekköy
  • Ovacık
  • Sarıçalı
  • Sarılar
  • Sinancılar
  • Soğukpınar
  • Sütçüler
  • Ulucak Cumhuriyet
  • Ulucak İstiklal
  • Ulucak Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  • Vişneli
  • Yenikurudere
  • Yenmiş
  • Yeşilköy
  • Yeşilyurt
  • Yiğitler
  • Yukarıkızılca Merkez
  • Zeamet

History

Karabel relief

Kemalpaşa region has always been a key point of passage between the

tumuli in the Lydian
style in the region.

Karabel Hittite-Luwian rock relief

The relief is a late

Tudhaliya IV. A male figure depicted standing with a bow in his right hand and a spear in his left wearing a tunic and a cone-shaped hat is identified as Tarkasnawa, King of Mira, according to a recent reading by David Hawkins, widely approved by scholars and matched with a name mentioned in Hattusa Hittite annals.[6] The relief is called "Eti Baba" (the Hittite father) locally.[7]

Nymphaion – Nif – Kemalpaşa

“Its fortress is a strongly built edifice on a steep rock and has five corners, the circumference measuring two thousand and two hundred steps and it has two gates, and ice-cold waters flow from the domes built under these. It is not possible to reach one's hands comfortably to take a third bowl of water.”

— Evliya Çelebi, 17th century Turkish traveller on Nif [8]

The town's name in classical and medieval times was Nymphaion (

Aidin Vilayet
.

Under Turkish rule, the town's original name was echoed in the

Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations
.

The mountain on the slopes of which the city of Kemalpaşa extends and the district's most important stream are still called Nif (respectively, Nif Dağı and Nif Çayı). With its summit reaching 1.510 meters high, Mount Nif was one of the mountains called Olympus in ancient times and is renowned today for its dense forests of oaks, oleasters, pines and other trees of the Aegean basin, cold springs and trout farms. The River Nif enters the district area near the township of Ulucak, crosses the plain to skip tangentially into the area of the neighboring district of Bornova, at which level a Roman bridge is found, rejoins Kemalpaşa to flow into Gediz River further north near Manisa.

Industry and professions

Industrial Zone name Year
opened 		Area (ha) Nr. of
enterprises 		Exports Employment Vacant space
KOSBİ 1990 1,030 236 1.9 m USD 19,200 83 %
Kemalpaşa Small Ind.Zone 1989 2 60 n/a n/a 5 %

There are 306 large industrial enterprises based in Kemalpaşa district and the share of the population employed directly or indirectly in industrial activities reaches 60%. The organized industrial zone KOSBİ gathers on its own 236 large enterprises, 7 with full and 41 with partial

foreign capital
.

The total number of companies based in Kemalpaşa district is 14.831. 463 of these are enterprises active in industrial sectors and 183 are registered exporters, the rest being accounted by establishments oriented towards services or agriculture. 8 banks are present in Kemalpaşa district with a total of 9 branches.

Cherries, livestock breeding, and forestry

The share of the population in Kemalpaşa district who pull their income from agriculture or animal breeding is 60%. Kemalpaşa region is well known for its cherries (Kemalpaşa kirazı in Turkish). 9 cooperatives set up for purposes of irrigation regulation and 6 others with agricultural development as objective bring together 3.137 persons. A large part of the land in Kemalpaşa district (1.310 hectares) is irrigated or has the infrastructure for regular irrigation, which explains the primary place occupied by maize among the grains produced, making Kemalpaşa an exceptional case in western Anatolia. The Union of Cherry Producers has 177 members, mostly large-scale producers. 1.594.600 cherry trees in total produced 47.838 tonnes of fruit in 2006 for Kemalpaşa. The increase compared to 2002 in the number of trees was 71.9% and in production 106.3%.

At about 2.500

mechanisation
in agricultural activities is high and well above the national averages.

Livestock 2002 2006 Increase (%)
Bovine animals 13,821 17,780 28.6
Ovine animals 12,622 14,085 11.6
Chicken 1,352,100 1,808,700 33.8
Turkey 54,130 240,200 343.7

There are about 200 large

beehives and 345 tonnes honey and 10 tonnes of beeswax
was produced in 2007.

Kemalpaşa center has an open market (bazaar) area covering 8.000 square meters, and the depending townships of Ulucak 3.000 and Armutlu 2.000 square meters, where local and rural products are sold. Outside KOSBİ industrial zone, firms established in Kemalpaşa realized exports reaching 260 million US Dollars in 2006, principally products of agriculture such as cherries, peaches, raisins and olive oil.

Social life

Kemalpaşa's proximity to İzmir and the tendency of the population to head for the big city for activities of social life becomes a factor which plays against Kemalpaşa district center in terms of the availability on the spot of social facilities. While the mountain passage at Karabel where the Hittite monument is located has been arranged into a picnic area and the remains of Vatatzes's palace could attract more visitors, the absence of facilities for overnight visitors tend to limit Kemalpaşa's tourism potential to daily visits or excursions by trekking or hunting groups.

One popular spot at a distance of a few kilometers to Kemalpaşa center is the "

Haflinger horses
.

Twin towns and sister cities

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Turkey

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kemalpaşa, İzmir.

Footnotes

  1. ^
    TÜİK
    . Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  2. ^ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  3. ^ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  4. ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Karabel". www.hittitemonuments.com.
  6. ^ David Hawkins (1998). Tarkasnawa, King of Mira. Anatolian Studies, Vol. 48.
  7. ISBN 978-0-510-03200-5
    .
  8. ISBN 90-04-11485-8
    .
  9. ^
    ISBN 0-19-504652-8
    .
  10. ^ Binjakëzime Archived 2013-09-22 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Kamëz (in Albanian)

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