Davutlar is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of
Kuşadası,
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 re ...
,
Turkey. Its population is 15,877 (2022). Before the
2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''
belde''). It lies at the north of the
Dilek Peninsula and south of Kuşadası. The original settlement is only a few kilometers to
Aegean Sea side and presently new quarters of the town are established at the sea side as summer resorts. The distance to Kuşadası is and to Aydın is .
History
The area around Davutlar was ruled by
Carians,
Ionia
Ionia () was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day Izmir. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionian ...
ns,
Lydia
Lydia (Lydian language, Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the mod ...
ns,
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire (; peo, 𐎧𐏁𐏂, , ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. Based in Western Asia, it was contemporarily the largest em ...
. The
battle of Mycale
The Battle of Mycale ( grc, Μάχη τῆς Μυκάλης; ''Machē tēs Mykalēs'') was one of the two major battles (the other being the Battle of Plataea) that ended the second Persian invasion of Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars. It ...
(479 BC) was fought aff shore from Davutlar. Later the area was ruled by
Alexander the Great,
Pergamon Kingdom and
Roman Empire. The first Turkic principality was founded in the 1090s by
Tanrıbermiş. During the late 13th century the
Aydınoğlu
The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty ( Modern Turkish: ''Aydınoğulları'', ''Aydınoğulları Beyliği'', ota, آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی), also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin (), was one of the Anatolia ...
principality dominated the area and finally in the 15th century the area was annexed by the
Ottoman Empire. The exact foundation date of the settlement is not known. But it was a town during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. The population of the town was enriched by refugees from
Caucasus (mainly
Circassians) after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), from
Crete following the revolt in Crete in 1896 and from various
Balkan
The Balkans ( ), also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the who ...
countries following the
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...
(1912-1913.)
Davutlar was declared a seat of township in 1969.
Economy
The traditional economic sector is agriculture. Being an Aegean town, Davutlar produces fruits and vegetables. The main industry is olive oil, but the most important activity during the summers is tourism (trade and services to seaside resorts).
References
External links
{{Kuşadası District
Neighbourhoods in Kuşadası District