AÄŸva
AÄŸva is a populated place and resort destination in the Åžile district of İstanbul Province, Turkey. History The area around AÄŸva was a part of ancient Bithynia. During the Ottoman era, Turkmen people were settled around AÄŸva. Up to 20th century, a sizable Greek population also dwelled in AÄŸva. However, according to population exchange between Greece and Turkey agreement in the 1920s, they were replaced by Turks from Greece. Geography AÄŸva is a coastal place at Black Sea, situated between two rivers, Göksu in the west and YeÅŸilçay in the east. In fact, the name AÄŸva means "between the rivers". YeÅŸilçay is known one of the main source of İstanbul urban water system, the YeÅŸilçay Drinking Water Plant. Its distance to İstanbul centrum is and to Åžile . Living With a picturesque scenery, AÄŸva is one of the popular resorts of İstanbul. In addition to the beach there are many boarding houses and restaurants. Göksu River is well known for boat excursions a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ağva Yeşilçay İstanbul Province
AÄŸva is a populated place and resort destination in the Åžile district of İstanbul Province, Turkey. History The area around AÄŸva was a part of ancient Bithynia. During the Ottoman era, Turkmen people were settled around AÄŸva. Up to 20th century, a sizable Greek population also dwelled in AÄŸva. However, according to population exchange between Greece and Turkey agreement in the 1920s, they were replaced by Turks from Greece. Geography AÄŸva is a coastal place at Black Sea, situated between two rivers, Göksu in the west and YeÅŸilçay in the east. In fact, the name AÄŸva means "between the rivers". YeÅŸilçay is known one of the main source of İstanbul urban water system, the YeÅŸilçay Drinking Water Plant. Its distance to İstanbul centrum is and to Åžile . Living With a picturesque scenery, AÄŸva is one of the popular resorts of İstanbul. In addition to the beach there are many boarding houses and restaurants. Göksu River is well known for boat excursions and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant
YeÅŸilçay Drinking Water Plant is a plant used to supply drinking water to İstanbul, Turkey. İstanbul The total population of İstanbul is 13 483 052 (as of 2011) which makes İstanbul one of the most populous cities of the world. The rate of annual increase is about 3.45% and the water demand is increasing asymptotically. So one of the most important problems of the municipality is to meet the demand. YeÅŸilçay YeÅŸilçay is a river at about east of Anatolian quarters of İstanbul. The headwaters are on the mountainous area of the Kocaeli Peninsula and the river flows to Black Sea in AÄŸva. The plant There are two water regulators (Sungurlu and İsabey ) on the rivulet and the water is pumped to the purification plant at Emirli via mains pipe. The diameter of the prestressed steel mains pipe is . In the first stage of the project 145 000 000 m3 water has been given to service annually. In the second stage the annual water intake is increased to a total of 335 000 00 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Åžile Cloth
Åžile is a city and district in Istanbul, Turkey. According to the 2007 census, the population of the district was 25,169, of which 9,831 lived in the city of Åžile, 2,096 in the nearby town of AÄŸva (YeÅŸilçay) and 13,242 in surrounding villages. However, between June and September, the population rapidly increases because of the many residents of Istanbul who have summer houses in Åžile. The district of Åžile is part of the province ( il) of Istanbul, and the municipality of Åžile is part of the metropolitan government ( büyükÅŸehir belediyesi) of Istanbul. Bordering Åžile is the province of Kocaeli (districts of Gebze, Körfez, Derince, Kandıra) to the east and south, and Istanbul districts of Pendik to the south, Çekmeköy to the southwest, and Beykoz to the west. The boundaries of Åžile were expanded by the addition of the village of Esenceli from Beykoz district in 1987. Åžile consists of Åžile, YeÅŸilvadi and Teke subdistricts, and 58 villages. The mayor is Can Tabak ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Åžile
Åžile is a city and district in Istanbul, Turkey. According to the 2007 census, the population of the district was 25,169, of which 9,831 lived in the city of Åžile, 2,096 in the nearby town of AÄŸva (YeÅŸilçay) and 13,242 in surrounding villages. However, between June and September, the population rapidly increases because of the many residents of Istanbul who have summer houses in Åžile. The district of Åžile is part of the province ( il) of Istanbul, and the municipality of Åžile is part of the metropolitan government ( büyükÅŸehir belediyesi) of Istanbul. Bordering Åžile is the province of Kocaeli (districts of Gebze, Körfez, Derince, Kandıra) to the east and south, and Istanbul districts of Pendik to the south, Çekmeköy to the southwest, and Beykoz to the west. The boundaries of Åžile were expanded by the addition of the village of Esenceli from Beykoz district in 1987. Åžile consists of Åžile, YeÅŸilvadi and Teke subdistricts, and 58 villages. The mayor is Can T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, 2 United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (2 states, both in associated state, free association with New Zealand). Compi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Population Exchange Between Greece And Turkey
The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey ( el, Ἡ Ἀνταλλαγή, I AntallagÃ, ota, مبادله, Mübâdele, tr, Mübadele) stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, on 30 January 1923, by the governments of Greece and Turkey. It involved at least 1.6 million people (1,221,489 Greek Orthodox from Asia Minor, Eastern Thrace, the Pontic Alps and the Caucasus, and 355,000–400,000 Muslims from Greece), most of whom were forcibly made refugees and ''de jure'' denaturalized from their homelands. The initial request for an exchange of population came from Eleftherios Venizelos in a letter he submitted to the League of Nations on 16 October 1922, as a way to normalize relations de jure, since the majority of surviving Greek inhabitants of Turkey had fled from recent massacres to Greece by that time. Venizelos proposed a "compulsory exchange of Greek and Turkish populations," and asked ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Populated Coastal Places In Turkey
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Seaside Resorts In Turkey
A seaside is the marine coast of a sea. * A seaside resort is a resort on or near a sea coast. Seaside may also refer to: Places Canada * Seaside Park, British Columbia, also known as Seaside United Kingdom * A mostly undeveloped coastal area in Perth and Kinross (central Scotland) called Seaside * Seaside, Carmarthenshire, a coastal settlement in Wales United States * Seaside, California * Seaside, Florida, one of the first communities in the United States designed on the principles of New Urbanism * Seaside, Oregon * Seaside, Queens, a section of Rockaway Beach in New York City * Seaside Heights, New Jersey * Seaside Park, New Jersey Transport * The Kanazawa Seaside Line, a people mover line in Yokohama, Japan *Seaside station (LIRR Montauk Line), a name briefly given to the 1867-built Babylon (LIRR station) along the Montauk Branch between 1868 and 1869 *Seaside station (LIRR Rockaway Beach), the original name for what is today the Beach 105th Street (IND Rocka ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2009 Turkish Local Elections
Local elections were held in Turkey on 29 March 2009. The overall winner was the ruling party Justice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the 2007 general election. The leading opposition party, the social democratic Kemalist CHP, increased its vote share, as did a number of smaller parties including the SP, DTP and BBP, whose party leader Muhsin YazıcıoÄŸlu had died in a helicopter crash four days before the election. The third largest party, the Turkish nationalist MHP, enjoyed a more modest vote surge. The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP. The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır, İzmir and Urfa,'' Hürriyet Daily News.'"Turkey's AKP loses against independent Fakibaba"/ref> and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.Al Jazeera English/ref> There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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İstanbul
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. The Black Sea is supplied by major rivers, principally the Danube, Dnieper, and Don. Consequently, while six countries have a coastline on the sea, its drainage basin includes parts of 24 countries in Europe. The Black Sea covers (not including the Sea of Azov), has a maximum depth of , and a volume of . Most of its coasts ascend rapidly. These rises are the Pontic Mountains to the south, bar the southwest-facing peninsulas, the Caucasus Mountains to the east, and the Crimean Mountains to the mid-north. In the west, the coast is generally small floodplains below foothills such as the Strandzha; Cape Emine, a dwindling of the east end of the Balkan Mountains; and the Dobruja Plateau considerably ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |