Denizli

Denizli is a city of the province same name, located at the west of the Turkey, in the Aegean area at the edge of the river Aksu. The city counts more 250  000 inhabitants.

History

Located at 7 km of the antique Laodicée of Lycos, flourishing city which made him shade a long time, Denizli undergoes the same fate as the whole of the provincial towns of the Roman Empire of the East: it is depopulated and attacked with the wire of the political sudden starts and soldiers whom the Byzantine Empire knows.

Following the Turkish opening of 1071, “akıncı” Turkmènes settle with its accesses, which generates conflicts with the Byzantines not allowing a suitable development of the city, which also sees passing under its walls the crusaders of Frederic Barberousse. Passed quickly under domination seldjoukide, the city becomes a prerogative of the beys de Germiyan when the empire seldjoukide declines. The occupation and Othoman integration will put definitively fine at the disorders, but the city will not be able to take a dash thereafter and will remain to the republic “a little more but one village” according to the proper terms of Atatürk.

It will thus be necessary to await the advent of the Republic so that Denizli changes: public textile factories are created, relayed very quickly by private initiative. The city is very strongly industrialized during second half of last century to become one of principal today centers industrial country (textile industries, mechanics, agroalimentary). The city is not indeed cut an agricultural world which surrounds it, it works rather in symbiosis with the rural regions which surround it (culture of cotton).

Culture

The symbol of the city, the cock, can thus summarize synergy between the town of Denizli and its environment. The cock gives its name to famous a Türkü (popular song) named Denizli horozları (cocks of Denizli).

The symbol of the cock (Race which makes the pride of the local population) is especially famous universally for the duration in times of its song

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Official site of the municipality of Denizli

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