Ahmetli

Ahmetli
Ahmetli
District
	Ahmetli railway station
	Location of Ahmetli within Turkey.
	Ahmetli Location of Ahmetli
	Coordinates: 38°37′N 28°41′E
Country	Turkey
Region	Aegean
Province	Manisa Province
Area [1]
• District	297.59 km2 (114.90 sq mi)
Elevation	501 m (1,644 ft)
Population (2012)[2]
• Urban	10,081
• District	16,493
• District density	55/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	45xxx
Area code	236
Licence plate	45
Climate	Csa
Website	www.ahmetli.bel.tr

Ahmetli is a town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. According to the 2000 census, population of the district is 18,852 of which 11,011 live in the town of Ahmetli.[3] The district covers an area of 298 km² (115 sq mi),[4] and the town lies at an elevation of 501 m (1,644 ft).

History

By the end of Greek Invasion of Anatolia, Ahmetli and all its surrounding villages were burned by the retreating Greek forces. The Greek soldier Giannis Koutsonicolas from Arahova describes the events with the following words;[5]

in the evening we left and passing through Ahmetli we burned it, as well as all the villages, marching all night, and almost in the morning we reached Kasaba which was being burned, as well as Çobanisa and Manisa and all the villages.
— Yiannis Koutsonicolas

Notes

"Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
"Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
Turkish Statistical Institute. "Census 2000, Key statistics for urban areas of Turkey" (in Turkish). Archived from the original (XLS) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
Statoids. "Statistical information on districts of Turkey". Archived from the original on 26 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
Κουτσονικόλας, Γιάννης (2008). Ασημάκης, Στάθης (ed.). Απ’ την Αράχωβα στα Κράσπεδα της Άγκυρας. Ημερολόγιο Εκστρατείας 1919-1922 (in Greek). Athens, Greece: Δήμος Αράχωβας. p. 217. ISBN 9789608854222. το βράδυ φύγαμε και διαβαίνοντες το (Αχμετλί) το κάψαμε, καθώς και όλα τα χωριά, βαδίζοντες όλην την νύχτα το πρωί σχεδόν φτάσαμε εις (Κασαμπά) όπου εκαίετο καθώς και η (Τσουμπανισιάν) και (Μαγνησία) και όλα τα χωριά.

References

Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. "Geographical information on Ahmetli, Turkey". Retrieved 2009-04-11.

External links

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[distr-area-1] "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.

[population-2] "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.

[die-3] Turkish Statistical Institute. "Census 2000, Key statistics for urban areas of Turkey" (in Turkish). Archived from the original (XLS) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2009-04-11.

[4] Statoids. "Statistical information on districts of Turkey". Archived from the original on 26 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-04.

[5] Κουτσονικόλας, Γιάννης (2008). Ασημάκης, Στάθης (ed.). Απ’ την Αράχωβα στα Κράσπεδα της Άγκυρας. Ημερολόγιο Εκστρατείας 1919-1922 (in Greek). Athens, Greece: Δήμος Αράχωβας. p. 217. ISBN 9789608854222. το βράδυ φύγαμε και διαβαίνοντες το (Αχμετλί) το κάψαμε, καθώς και όλα τα χωριά, βαδίζοντες όλην την νύχτα το πρωί σχεδόν φτάσαμε εις (Κασαμπά) όπου εκαίετο καθώς και η (Τσουμπανισιάν) και (Μαγνησία) και όλα τα χωριά.