Adatepe | |
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![]() View of Adatepe | |
Coordinates: 39°34′10″N 26°37′10″E / 39.56944°N 26.61944°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | Çanakkale |
District | Ayvacık |
Elevation | 280 m (920 ft) |
Population (2021) | 396 |
Time zone | UTC+3 ( TRT) |
Postal code | 17980 |
Area code | 0286 |
Adatepe is a village in the Küçükkuyu belde, in Ayvacık District of Çanakkale Province in northwestern Turkey. [1] Its population is 396 (2021). [2] The village was revived in the 1980s when the traditional stone houses were restored by people seeking to escape city life.
The village is situated 280 m (920 ft) above sea level on the western foothill of Mount Ida ( Turkish: Kaz Dağı) north of Edremit Gulf in Biga Peninsula. [3] It is 105 km (65 mi) from the province center Çanakkale, 35 km (22 mi) from district center Ayvacık.
Up on a hill overlooking the environs and the Edremit Gulf with the islands off Ayvalık and Lesbos, a historical site is situated with a stone chamber and water-filled cistern attributed as a Zeus altar. It is believed that according to Homer's epic poem Iliad, king of the gods Zeus watched the Trojan Wars from this place. [4]
Historically, the village was co-inhabited by Greeks in Turkey and Turks. [3] In 1905, around 600 Orthodox Greeks lived in the village, where a church named "Koimēsis tēs Theotokou" (Greek for " Dormition of the Mother of God") stood. The village was named Adatepe in 1912. [5] It was one of the places in Turkey where Greeks and Turks lived together and shared their cultures. [3] [6] Locals reported there was a continued Turkish tradition since Seljuk times in the village as well as a Greek lifestyle the Turkish population lived with tin the Greek structures. [6] During the population exchange between Greece and Turkey by 1924, Muslim Cretan Turks settled replacing the Greek Orthodox population in the village. [4] [6]
The buildings in the village have Greek and Turkish architecture. [6] The original houses in the village are made of stone, and have two stories in general. All houses have a courtyard and a garden. The village is surrounded by olive groves. In the 1980s, a group of people, who escaped the big city life, came to Adatepe, which was about to turn into a ghost town towards the end of the 1980s. [6] People from Ankara, İzmir and mostly from Istanbul purchased buildings, which could be regarded as ruined, and converted them into living spaces by keeping their traditional Greek and Turkish architecture. [6] Today, the newcomers and the locals live in harmony. [4] [6] The total houses in the village number 380, [7] and Adatepe was declared in 1989 an urban protected area of first grade, being the only one with this status in the region. [3] [4]
Some of the more than a hundred restored stone buildings are used as tourist accommodation. Around two hundred thousand tourists visit Adatepe yearly. [6]
In Küçükkuyu, there is the Adatepe Olive Oil Museum located near the village, [7] which produces cold-pressed olive oil and olive oil-based soaps scented with lavender, laurel and rosemary. [8] The olive-based diverse products, of which packagings are adorned with a Greek girl picture, [7] are also exported. [9]
Adatepe | |
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![]() View of Adatepe | |
Coordinates: 39°34′10″N 26°37′10″E / 39.56944°N 26.61944°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | Çanakkale |
District | Ayvacık |
Elevation | 280 m (920 ft) |
Population (2021) | 396 |
Time zone | UTC+3 ( TRT) |
Postal code | 17980 |
Area code | 0286 |
Adatepe is a village in the Küçükkuyu belde, in Ayvacık District of Çanakkale Province in northwestern Turkey. [1] Its population is 396 (2021). [2] The village was revived in the 1980s when the traditional stone houses were restored by people seeking to escape city life.
The village is situated 280 m (920 ft) above sea level on the western foothill of Mount Ida ( Turkish: Kaz Dağı) north of Edremit Gulf in Biga Peninsula. [3] It is 105 km (65 mi) from the province center Çanakkale, 35 km (22 mi) from district center Ayvacık.
Up on a hill overlooking the environs and the Edremit Gulf with the islands off Ayvalık and Lesbos, a historical site is situated with a stone chamber and water-filled cistern attributed as a Zeus altar. It is believed that according to Homer's epic poem Iliad, king of the gods Zeus watched the Trojan Wars from this place. [4]
Historically, the village was co-inhabited by Greeks in Turkey and Turks. [3] In 1905, around 600 Orthodox Greeks lived in the village, where a church named "Koimēsis tēs Theotokou" (Greek for " Dormition of the Mother of God") stood. The village was named Adatepe in 1912. [5] It was one of the places in Turkey where Greeks and Turks lived together and shared their cultures. [3] [6] Locals reported there was a continued Turkish tradition since Seljuk times in the village as well as a Greek lifestyle the Turkish population lived with tin the Greek structures. [6] During the population exchange between Greece and Turkey by 1924, Muslim Cretan Turks settled replacing the Greek Orthodox population in the village. [4] [6]
The buildings in the village have Greek and Turkish architecture. [6] The original houses in the village are made of stone, and have two stories in general. All houses have a courtyard and a garden. The village is surrounded by olive groves. In the 1980s, a group of people, who escaped the big city life, came to Adatepe, which was about to turn into a ghost town towards the end of the 1980s. [6] People from Ankara, İzmir and mostly from Istanbul purchased buildings, which could be regarded as ruined, and converted them into living spaces by keeping their traditional Greek and Turkish architecture. [6] Today, the newcomers and the locals live in harmony. [4] [6] The total houses in the village number 380, [7] and Adatepe was declared in 1989 an urban protected area of first grade, being the only one with this status in the region. [3] [4]
Some of the more than a hundred restored stone buildings are used as tourist accommodation. Around two hundred thousand tourists visit Adatepe yearly. [6]
In Küçükkuyu, there is the Adatepe Olive Oil Museum located near the village, [7] which produces cold-pressed olive oil and olive oil-based soaps scented with lavender, laurel and rosemary. [8] The olive-based diverse products, of which packagings are adorned with a Greek girl picture, [7] are also exported. [9]