Tire, Ä°zmir
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Tire is a town and a district of the Turkish province of Izmir. The city is located about 60 kilometers southeast of the provincial capital of Izmir at a junction of the road D -310, which runs from east to Torbalı Alaşehir.
The district is located in the south of the province and is bordered to the west by Selçuk and Torbalı, on the north by Bayındır, to the east by Ödemiş and on the south by the province of Aydın. The city is located at the junction of the mountains Aydın Dağları to the plane of Küçük Menderes.
Tire has a museum with an archaeological and ethnological one department.
History
Tire is probably on the site of ancient Arcadiopolis. Under Lydian rule, the city had the name Teira, in the Byzantine period Thyrea or Thyraia. In early Turkish period it belonged to the Beylik Aydınoğulları. After the takeover by the Ottomans in 1426 became the capital of a sanjak Tire and had a mint. Until the Turkish-Greek population exchange after the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 Tire had approximately 15,000 predominantly Greek population.
Sports
The county is represented by the sports club Tirespor. The football section of the club played in the 1970 and the 1983 years, a total of ten seasons in the second-highest professional league in today's TFF 1 Lig For the summer of 1992, adopted it with the descent from the 3rd Lig from professional football and has performed since then in the regional amateur league.
Famous people
- Ali Arslan ( born 1947 ), German writer of Turkish descent
- Yasin Avcı ( b. 1983 ), the Turkish football player
- Cansel Elçin (born 1973 ), the Turkish actor
- Kara Üveys Pasha (* 1591 ), Ottoman dignitaries in the 16th century and Kadi in Tire