Geyre is a small town in the District of Karacasu,

Aydın Province Aydın Province ( tr, ) is a province of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region. The provincial capital is the city of Aydın which has a population of almost 200,000 (2012). Other towns in the province include the summer seaside res ...

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. Also known as ''Yeni koy'' (the "new village"), it was relocated around 1960, from over the

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city of

Aphrodisias Aphrodisias (; grc, Ἀφροδισιάς, Aphrodisiás) was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, about east/inland from t ...

archeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...

to a new location nearby.National Geographic Magazine; "Ancient Aphrodisias and Its Marble Treasures;" Kenan T. Erim, Ph.D.; August 1967 issue. It is about 230 km (140 mi) south-east of

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, and about 100 km (62 mi) inland/east from the coast. of the

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As of 2010, it had a population of 956 people.

History

Previously called Ninoé, Aphrodisias, and Stravopolis in the ancient

Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid- Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joine ...

region, the Turkish village of "Old Geyre" emerged by the late 18th century CE when settlers were attracted to the area due to fertile soil and plentiful water. It is a settlement which was developed over the ruins of the ancient Greek city of

. Aphrodisias was established in the 4th century BCE.

Relocation

The new village of Geyre was relocated from the "Old Geyre" location, and built by the Turkish government c. 1960, due to earthquake threats to its stone dwellings, and to protect the rediscovered (1957)

and antiquities of a Bronze Age (3,000-2200 BCE) settlement,

and Roman

, and

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Stravopolis (c.3rd−c.12th centuries). The village was relocated when excavations began again on the ruins of Aphrodisias.

References

Populated places in Aydın Province Karacasu District Towns in Turkey Archaeological sites in the Aegean Region {{Aydın-geo-stub

History

Relocation

See also

References