Gereli is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ödemiş, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 955 (2022). It is situated to the east of Ödemiş. Distance to Ödemiş is 8 kilometres (5 mi) and to İzmir is 118 kilometres (73 mi).
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It is located 9 km. northeast of Ödemiş/İzmir. Dios Hieron was a town of ancient Lydia, in the upper valley of the Cayster River. The city became part of the Roman Republic and the Roman province of Asia with the annexation of the Attalid kingdom. It also bore the name Diospolis, and was cited by the sixth century Byzantine geographer Stephanus of Byzantium under that name. It was renamed to Christopolis or Christoupolis in the 7th century and was known as Pyrgium or Pyrgion from the 12th century on. Pyrgion fell to the Turks in 1307, and became the capital of the beylik of Aydin. The town minted coins in antiquity, often with the inscription "Διοσιερειτων".
Its site is located near Birgi, Asiatic Turkey.
6.3 km
Birgi is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ödemiş, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,832. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. Its current name is a turkified version of its medieval Greek name, Pyrgion.
6.5 km
Birgi Grand Mosque, also called "Aydınoğlu Mehmet Bey Mosque", is a historical mosque in Turkey.
The mosque is in the Birgi town in Ödemiş ilçe of İzmir Province.
Aydınids was an Anatolian beylik in the 14th century in West Anatolia. Birgi, now a village was the capital of the beylik. The mosque was commissioned by Mehmet, the first ruler of the beylik.
6.9 km
Kaymakçı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Ödemiş, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 5,489. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.
7.6 km
Ödemiş Urban Archives and Museum is an ethnographic museum in Ödemiş, İzmir Province, Turkey.
The museum building is a former hotel named Yıldız which was opened in 1927. In 2006 the municipality of Ödemiş bought the hotel and after a renovation project it was opened as a museum in 2012.
The museum hosts 6218 ethnographical items as well as 20815 documents and 3619 books. There are 14 rooms in the museum. Some rooms are reserved for famous Ödemiş people such as Şükrü Saracoğlu, Doctor Mustafa Bengisu and Alev Coşkun. Other rooms are so called brides'room, watchmakers' room, barbers' room, tobacco room, hotel room, history room, kitchen etc.
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