Gölmarmara is a municipality and

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. Its area is 310 km², and its population is 15,193 (2022). It lies at a distance of from the province center of

Manisa Manisa () is a city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province, lying approximately 40 km northeast of the major city of İzmir. The city forms the urban part of the districts Şehzadeler and Yunusemre, with ...

. The town owes its name to the nearby

Lake Marmara Lake Marmara () is a lake in Manisa Province, western Turkey, bordered by the district areas of Gölmarmara to the northwest, whose name itself is inspired by the lake, and in larger part by Salihli. Lake Marmara is located in the alluvial va ...

, called under various names throughout history. The town of Gölmarmara itself was a mere village in Ottoman times cited under such names as ''"Marmaracık"'' or ''"Mermere"''. It was made into a township with its own municipality depending the district center of

Akhisar Akhisar () is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,645 km2, and its population is 177,419 (2022). It is the site of the ancient city of Thyatira. With archaeological findings that are proving settlements go ...

at the time of the foundation of the Turkish Republic (1923) and in 1987 a district center by its own right and under the same name, Gölmarmara. Gölmarmara lies at an elevation of . Agricultural lands and forest lands each occupy roughly around 11,500 hectares in the district area, with a few thousand in the fertile plain of the

Gediz River The Gediz River (, ) is the second-longest river in Anatolia flowing into the Aegean Sea. From its source of Mount Murat in Kütahya Province, it flows generally west for to the Gediz River Delta in the Gulf of İzmir. Name The ancient Greek ...

valley remaining unused. Lake Marmara, aside from being a recreational center for the province as a whole, is also an important source for fishing and agricultural irrigation. Slightly lower than the town center at , the lake is also an

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. There are six primary schools and two high schools in Gölmarmara, with a total teacher's corpus of 117 and a student's corpus of 3,094. A small professional higher school depending

Celal Bayar University Manisa Celal Bayar University or (CBU) is a public research university located in Manisa, Turkey. CBU traces its root back to 1959 as an independent sports and teachers' college in Manisa. The main campus is in Muradiye district of Manisa. Th ...

is also located in Gölmarmara, its academic corpus composed of six teachers providing education higher education with a professional focus to 144 students. The town's most important historical building is Halime Hatun Religious Complex built by the Ottoman sultan

Mehmed III Mehmed III (, ''Meḥmed-i sālis''; ; 26 May 1566 – 22 December 1603) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603. Mehmed was known for ordering the execution of his brothers and leading the army in the Long Turkish ...

during his tenure in Manisa (1583-1595) in the name of his

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and his future grand vizier Tekeli Lala Mehmed Pasha's mother-in-law Halime Hatun. In 2015 an important archaeological discovery was made at

Kaymakçı Kaymakçı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ödemiş, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 5,489 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''belde''). Geography Kaymakçı is situated on the southern s ...

: a Middle and

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city (2000-1200 BC) whose area was approximately 4 times larger than that of Troy.

Composition

There are 21

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in Gölmarmara District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. * Atatürk * Ayanlar * Beyler * Çamköy * Çömlekçi * Değnekler * Eskicami * Hacıbaştanlar * Hacıveliler * Hıroğlu * İhsaniye * İsmetpaşa * Kayaaltı * Kayapınar * Kılcanlar * Ozanca * Taşkuyucak * Tiyenli * Yenicami * Yeniköy * Yunuslar

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Golmarmara Populated places in Manisa Province Districts of Manisa Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey Archaeological sites of prehistoric Anatolia