Kuyucak is a municipality and

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, east of İzmir. Kuyucak is near the larger town of

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Etymology

The word of Kuyucak probably comes from ''kuyuçok'' (means "many wells").

Geography

In the foothills of the Aydın mountains, the economy of Kuyucak is based on agriculture. The mountain districts produce olive oil, while the lowland plain of the

Büyük Menderes Büyük means "big" in Turkic languages and may refer to: People Given name * Büyük Jeddikar (1929–2013), Iranian retired footballer * Büyük Vatankhah (born 1943), Iranian retired footballer Surname * Adem Büyük (born 1987), Turkish ...

River produces high quality oranges, figs and cotton. Kuyucak itself is a small town of 7,200 people. Kuyucak has a typical Aegean climate, with hot summers, rainy autumns, chilly winters and sunny springs.

Composition

There are 36

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in Kuyucak District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. * Aksaz *

Aydınoğlu The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty (Modern Turkish: ''Aydınoğulları'', ''Aydınoğulları Beyliği'', Old Anatolian Turkish: آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی, also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin (), was one o ...

* Azizabat * Başaran * Belenova * Beşeylül * Bucakköy * Çamdibi * Çobanisa *

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* Dereköy *

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* Merkez Beşeylül * Musakolu *

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Transportation

There are regular buses from İzmir

Adnan Menderes Airport Adnan () is traditionally regarded as the patriarch of the Adnanite Arabs, a major Arab lineage that historically inhabited Northern, Western, Eastern, and Central Arabia. The Adnanites are distinct from the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern Arabia ...

and

(70 km to the west). The town is also on the İzmir–

railway line and there is a daily train service.

History

A few km southeast of Kuyucak lie the ruins of

Antioch on the Maeander Antioch on the Maeander or Antiochia on the Maeander (; ), earlier Pythopolis, was a city of ancient Caria, in Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. The city was situated between the Maeander and Orsinus rivers near their confluence. Though it was ...

, an ancient

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

city. Independence day is celebrated on 5 September, the date that Kuyucak was liberated at the end of the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

Kuyucak in popular culture

* "Kuyucaklı Yusuf" (''Yusuf of Kuyucak'') is the title of a major novel published in 1937 by

Sabahattin Ali Sabahattin Ali (25 February 1907 – 2 April 1948) was a Turkish people, Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Early life He was born in 1907 in Ardino, Eğridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the San ...

about the small-town life in Turkey. The story was made into a film in 1985 by

Feyzi Tuna Feyzi (Persian: فیضی) is a Turkish-language masculine given name and Persian-language surname derived from the Persian noun of Arabic origin فیض (fayz) with the meaning "grace". Notable people with the name include: Given name * Feyzi Me ...

References

External links

the municipality

the district governorate
Populated places in Aydın Province Districts of Aydın Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey {{Aydın-geo-stub