Yahyalı

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Yahyalı is the name of both a town and a district in the Turkish province of Kayseri in central Anatolia.

The county

Yahyalı is the southernmost district of the province, which is characterized by the steep slopes in this area of the Taurus Mountains belonging aladaglar substantially. Through the county, the river runs Zamanti. The city Yahyalı is the county seat of the district of the same name. According to the census of 2007, there were 38 274 inhabitants in the county.

A 300 km ² area of ​​the district is part of the wooded National Park aladaglar, the greater part of the province of Kayseri heard of but partly also extends to the districts in the province of Nigde and Camardi Aladağ in the province of Adana.

Yahyalı seeks increasingly to tourism, primarily within the national park area. There the river Zamanti developed both in Turkey and Foreign attraction for rafting prospects. The entire national park is also used for trekking and mountaineering activities such as hiking and mountain climbing, the trails start at the seven glacial lakes in 3.500m altitude near the entrance of the national park.

The region has rich deposits of iron, zinc and lead ores, which are mined increased in recent years.

Near the city lie on the slope of the aladaglar Kapuzbasi Falls. The largest of them is fed by an underground river running through the rock and may result in the spring water.

In addition to mining the inhabitants remain as a source of income nor the agriculture and the livestock industry. Yahyalı is also known for its traditional hand-knotted carpets are dyed with natural substances.

In the here spoken language in the region, many words and phrases are used daily by the locals that you will look in vain in dictionaries, they seem to exist only in Yahyalı. The origin of these words is unknown, but most are used according to the rules of the Turkish language.