Datça

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Datça [ datʃa ] is a city in the Turkish province of Muğla.

Location

The place is located on a five -mile-wide bottleneck of the peninsula, which covers a total area of 459 km ². Inland is Alt - Datça ( Eski Datca ) with traditional houses.

Administration

The city is the capital of the district of the same name. The Mayor called M. Sener Tokcan.

History

The Datça region has been inhabited since ancient times. Of the ruins bear witness to the ancient city of Knidos in the west of the peninsula in the 7th century BC. be dated. Knidos was connected to its port with the eastern Mediterranean region.

In seldjukischer time the Turkish colonization of the island began, probably by sea.

First, the peninsula was ruled area of ​​Menteşeoğulları. In 1390 they were defeated by Sultan Bayezid, the region fell to the Ottoman Empire in order to.

The Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi passed through the area in 1670 and mentioned the place name " Dacca ", which is very similar to the present name. Evliya Çelebi From we also know that the peninsula was one of the 17th century from 7.000 to 8.000 inhabitants.

Since the 17th century Datça was under the influence of the local dynasty of Tuhfezades.

By a mountain range, the region was cut off from the Anatolian hinterland and oriented themselves to the early 20th century, more towards the Aegean islands of Rhodes, Kos and Symi. But that changed in 1911, when the Ottoman Empire lost the Datça peninsula islands to Italy.

During the First World War and in the wake of the Greek-Turkish population exchange in 1923, the population Datças went back. In the 1950s, the population figures continued to fall, many residents migrated to nearby cities. Since the 1970s to Datça developed as a center of tourism, so that the population figures rose again.

Traffic

Datça is connected by a main road with Marmaris. Furthermore, there are ferry connections to Bodrum from about five kilometers north of the town Ferry Körmen. Also to the opposite Greek island of Symi is a weekly ferry.