ADATEPE VILLAGE
Adatepe village, which is surrounded by olive tres and pine forests, is located on the far west slopes of mythological Mt.Ida. Besides the diversity of its rich flora and fauna, Ida is also well known for its high level of oxygene. Adatepe village is under protection as a natural and a historical heritage site.
Turks and Greeks lived together here until the end of WWI . However, the history of the village traces back to hundreds of years ago and the altar of Zeus located near the village is a great evidence for the historical background of the human settlement in the village.
Today, the Ottoman mosque of the village and the tomb stones of its cemetery are counted to be the witnesses of the history. Unfortunately, the Church and the Greek cemetery existed until 1940s, but lost in time.
Some elderly locals stil remember the days when the village was populated by 400 households and 8 pubs, 2 butchers, 6 groceries, 1 draper, 1 blacksmith, 3 barbers, 1 lighter, 2 tailors, 3 olive oil factories, 1 bakery, 1 reading-hall, 1 guest-hall, 1 committee hall and a cinema functioning.
Today, there are only 28 housholds in Adatepe. Olive farming and stock-breeding are the primary occupations in the village.
TRUVA, is one of the most famous archeological cities in the world. The 9 layers seen in Troy are continuously points out a time more than 3000 years and provide us to trace the civilizations established in this unique geography at which Anatolian, Aegean and the Balkans regions are met.
The earliest residential layer in Troy dates 3000-2500 BC, early bronze age; after being residence continuously, Troyan layers ends with Roman period dating 85 BC-8 AD centuries. Due to its geographical position, Troy always had an important part in the terms of trading and culturel relationships between the civilizations once ruled in the region and the ones in the other regions. Troy has also a reference for the other archeological areas in the Aegean and the Europe by its continuous layers. First in 1871 by Heinrich Schliemann, and than by W. Dörpfeld, by C.W. Blegen having been excavated, in this magnificent archeological city the excavations are still being held by Prof. Dr. Manfred Korfmann from the University of Tubingen.Troy, still offering endless datas for us in the excavations held by Korfman and his crew, has taken a place in the World Inheritance List since 1998.
You shouldn’t leave our region without seeing BAŞDEĞİRMEN, taken place in Adatepe Village.
The canyon formed during the run of the stream of Mıhlı, also mentioned in Homeros’s epic of Ilyada, keeping on running for thousands of years from Kaz Mountain to the Aegean, charms the
people watching with its unique beauty. It’s a naturel beauty where people sweltering by the hot summer run to see and let themselves the freshness of Kaz Mountain s.
ASSOS or its name today Behramkale(Behramköy) is a residential place, in the district of Ayvacik in Çanakkale, existing continuously about 3 thousands of years since the years of 1000 BC. Famous by its fish and calamary Assos is a paradise whose beauty gets reason for Aristo, a famous philosopher, to be married there.
It’s supposed to be established by the people from Methymna who had come from Mytilene on 7 BC century.
The acropolis, built on a hill, both overlooking to the sea and the ground, is surrounded by a wall, 3 km lenght. It is qualified as one of the most important walls in its period in terms of its work and architecture. Especially its doors, made in different styles from eachother , fascinate the visitors coming.
KADIRGA BAY, nearer to Adatepe Village, is one of the most beautiful bays in Turkey.
SARIKIZ: Kazdağı is the setting for legends not only in mythology but also in the modern day. Among the many legends and stories that are told among the Turkmen people of the region is the one about "Sarıkız" (The blonde girl). Sarıkız was a beautiful and good hearted girl from the village of Güre in Edremit. But those jealous of her started malicious rumours about the girl. The rumours spread and her father, thinking she had lost her virginity, took her and some geese to the peak of Kazdağları and left her and the geese to fend for themselves.After a while the father got curious and decided to see what Sarıkız was up to where he had left her. He found her. When he wanted to take a wash before praying he asked his daughter to fetch some water. Sarıkız reached her hand across the mountain and filled her receptacle with water from the sea and handed the water to her father. The father realised that his daughter Sarıkız had become a saint. However, Sarıkız, realising that her secret had become known, died on the spot. The father was deeply saddened by this and also dies on the next peak ahead.Turkmen villagers refer to the spot where Sarıkız died as Sarıkız Tepesi (Hill) and the area where the father died as Baba Dağı (Father Hill).
Every year the Turkmen of the Kazdağları climb to Sarıkız Tepesi and sacrifice sheep and cook them in a feast to be enjoyed all together. In Hellenic mythology, Priam's son Paris was left on Mount Ida and looked after geese and Sarıkız and the geese doing the same bring these two stories together.
ANTANDROS, It was appeared on the west sides of Kaletepe where is located on the southern foods of İda Mountain, on the north of Edremit Gulf, when they were working on road construction on the 3rd km of Edremit-Altinoluk highway.
Strabon, who was a famous geographer in old times, mentioned Antandros as a city on Adramyttenas Gulf. Vergillius also dated back this city’s history to Troyan Wars. Vergillius, telling about Troyan War with its details and mentioning about Antandros, he expressed that the timbers made from the trees in İda Mountain were used for ship construction and its famous to have been spread to the antique world..
Pergamon (BERGAMA), which is one of the important cities of Mysia region, begins from the foots of the hill, where is located acropolis, extends to the plain. The ground, whose fertility increased by Selinos(Pergamon) and Kestel(Keitos) Streams running from the two sides of the hill, located Acropolis, into Bakırçay (Kalkos) River, provided it to be one of the favourite cities of Antique Period. The city, aparted two by Pergamon Stream(Selinos), with the natural sources and the plains around the streams is now extended until where is now called Musalla Cemetery. The acropolis’s sharp shoulders 392.3 m. high aren’t affected by the immigration in terms of the city is away from the sea. However being nearer to Pitane(Çandarli) and Dikili Gulf, it’s also connected with The King Road by the road following Kaiko Valley in the west, reaching to Akhisar(Thyateria) and this used the city for its importance |
