Aydın Province

Aydın is a province in western Turkey on the Aegean coast. In ancient times the region was a frontier region of Caria with Lydia and Phrygia. The provincial capital is the city of Aydın. In the present boundaries, it is one with 8007 km ² to the smaller provinces of the country, but with around 1 million inhabitants, relatively densely populated ( 123 inhabitants per km ²).

It borders the provinces of İzmir in the north, Manisa to the northeast, Denizli and Muğla to the south in the east.

Counties

The Aydın province consists of the counties of:

• Aydın
• Bozdoğan
• Buharkent
• Çine
• Didim
• Germencik
• İncirliova
• Karacasu
• Karpuzlu

• Koçarlı
• Köşk
• Kuşadası
• Kuyucak
• Nazilli
• Soke
• Sultanhisar
• Yenipazar.

Traffic

The province is connected by the O31 ( E87 ) with about Selçuk İzmir on the Aegean coast. Inland lead the E87 and the railway line further on Aydın and turn later ( Denizli ) southward into the Taurus Mountains to the south coast of Turkey from.

Geography and History

The central province of Aydın capital has approximately 180,000 inhabitants. About 80 km from the Aegean Sea, it is located in the valley of the Great Meander ( Menderes Turkish Büyuk ), with 550 km of the longest river of western Anatolia.

Meanwhile valley runs through the entire province in east-west direction. Therein lies most of the towns and cities ( eg Soke and Nazilli ), its headwaters located in the east adjoining province of Denizli.

The border to the northern province of İzmir is formed by the Aydın Mountains ( Aydın Dağları ), which runs parallel to the Great meanders and reaches several times 1800 m altitude. The southern half of the region is divided by four large valleys across it.

Between Soke and Aydın remained of the ancient Nysa is the old magnesia, upriver at Sultanhisar.

The coastal plain of the Great Meander has widened since the Greek Ionian time through the sediments of the river a few kilometers from the sea. About 15 km north and south of the mouth, you can visit the remains of the cities of Priene, Miletus and Didyma.

This now only sparsely populated landscape was by two and a half millennia a settlement center of the Ionian Greeks. The whole region was marked by Ephesus. The capital of the Roman province of Asia today lies a few kilometers north of the provincial border at the mouth of the Little Meander ( Turkish Küçük Menderes ), the Greek was known Kaystros. The province's name derives from the Turkmen dynasty of Aydın - Oğulları ago that this formerly Byzantine territories conquered the early 14th century during the decay of the rumseldschukischen state in southwest Asia Minor and an empire with the centers in Ephesus ( Ayasoluk ) and Birgi ( Pyrgion ) founded, which was incorporated in 1390 and finally 1425/1426 the Ottoman Empire.

The Aydın province is famous for its figs, so will also the majority of the Turkish fig production from Aydın.