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:''This article is about the provincial capital. For the province, see Muğla province
'Muğla' (Greek: ''Μούγλα'') is the seat of Muğla province, which stretches along Turkey´s Aegean coast in the southwest of the country.
Muğla lies around 20 km inland, at an altitude of 660 m in a pot-shaped small plain surrounded by mountains, and is the administrative capital of a province that includes the popular tourist resorts of Bodrum, Marmaris and Fethiye.
Although it is so close to the major resorts Muğla has only recently begun to attract visitors itself. Sights of interest in the town include
★ the Ottoman Empire-era bazaar (''Arasta'') - marked by a clock tower built by a Greek craftsman named Filivari Usta in 1895,
★ ''Kurşunlu Cami'' - a large mosque built in 1495
★ Vakıflar Hamam - a Turkish bath which dates back to 1258.
★ The old quarter of Muğla - on the slopes and around Saburhane Square (''Meydanı''), consisting of about four hundred registered old houses dating from the 18th century and the 19th century, many of which are restored. These houses are mainly in the Turkish style characterized with ''hayat'' sections ("courts") entered through double-shuttered doors called ''kuzulu kapı'' ("lamb doors") and dotted with chimneys typical of Muğla, but there are also a number of "Greek" houses. The differences between the two types of houses may have as much to do with the extent to which wood or stone were used in their architecture, and whether they were arranged in intraverted or extraverted styles, as with who inhabited them previously.
★ Muğla City Museum - has a good collection of archaeological and ethnographical artefacts, as well as 9 million years old animal and plant fossiles recently discovered in Kaklıcatepe nearby.
The city is also home to Muğla University. The local football club, Muğlaspor currently apply their trade in the third tier of the Turkish football pyramid.
★ ''See Muğla Province and Caria for more information on the history of the area as a whole''
In ancient times Muğla was a rather insignificant settlement in the region of Caria, which was ruled from the larger coastal towns of Halicarnasoss or Knidos. Muğla was part of the Rhodian Peraea which was subject to Rhodes but not incorporated in the Rhodian state, and was called under the Carian name of Mobolla. There are almost no ruins to enlighten the history of the settlement of Muğla. On the high hill to the north of the city, the presence of some insignificant ancient remains indicate that an acropolis was located here. Two inscriptions unearthed within the city are from the 2nd century B.C., attesting to the Rhodian domination.
In the Turkish era Muğla remained insignificant as the local ruling dynasty the Menteşe ruled from nearby Milas, until Muğla finally acquired regional importance after it replaced Milas as the seat of the subprovince (sanjak) under the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century. The sanjak carried the name Menteşe till the Republican Era when it was renamed after its seat, Muğla.
A sleepy town of 20,000 until recently, disregarded by visitors rushing to its coastal resorts, Muğla has seen been given a new breath of life with the founding of Muğla University in the 1990s. Today the university boasts a 16,000-strong student community, which opened has the city to the outside (including international) world. Also in recent years a large programme of restoration of the city's architectural heritage has enhanced local tourism.
Muğla's political color has traditionally been center-left. In Turkey's 2004 local elections, Dr. Osman Gürün (CHP) was re-elected, increasing his votes to 43,28 %, aided in this by the abrupt virtual collapse of the other center-left party the DSP. The 2004 elections were the seventh successive victory for the center-left candidates in the Muğla municipality. Turkey's incumbent AKP and the traditional center-right DYP have each obtained (24,5-24.75 %). The rightist MHP campaigning on Turkish-identity consciousness arguments had a very weak presence in Muğla (1,99 %), as did the urban center-right ANAP.
★ Arms trading tycoon Basil Zaharoff, whose family were actually Greeks of İstanbul, but he was born in Muğla in 1849.
★ The French actress of Greek descent Anna Mouglalis, as attested by her name, can trace her roots to the city. [1]
★ Mining and poultry magnate Yavuz Sıtkı Koçman (d 2002) who contributed an important part of his fortune to building the university in the 1990s.
★ Muğla University
★ Menteşe (Anatolian Turkish Beyliks)
★ Caria
★ Governor's Office
★ the Municipality
★ local information
★ Mugla guide
★ Photographs and information about Muğla, Turkey guide
★ Pictures of the city
1. According to 1912 figures, the Sandjak of Menteşe (Muğla) had a total population of 42,000, in which 1,500-4,000 according to varying sources, were Greeks (''S. Anagiostopoulou (1997) and G. Sotiriadis (1918) for the demographic data'')
Muğla Clock Tower built by the Greek craftsman Filivari Usta in 1895
'Muğla' (Greek: ''Μούγλα'') is the seat of Muğla province, which stretches along Turkey´s Aegean coast in the southwest of the country.
| Contents |
| Geography |
| Places of interest |
| History |
| Modern Muğla |
| Politics |
| Notable people from Muğla |
| See also |
| External links |
| Footnotes |
Geography
Muğla lies around 20 km inland, at an altitude of 660 m in a pot-shaped small plain surrounded by mountains, and is the administrative capital of a province that includes the popular tourist resorts of Bodrum, Marmaris and Fethiye.
Places of interest
Although it is so close to the major resorts Muğla has only recently begun to attract visitors itself. Sights of interest in the town include
★ the Ottoman Empire-era bazaar (''Arasta'') - marked by a clock tower built by a Greek craftsman named Filivari Usta in 1895,
★ ''Kurşunlu Cami'' - a large mosque built in 1495
★ Vakıflar Hamam - a Turkish bath which dates back to 1258.
★ The old quarter of Muğla - on the slopes and around Saburhane Square (''Meydanı''), consisting of about four hundred registered old houses dating from the 18th century and the 19th century, many of which are restored. These houses are mainly in the Turkish style characterized with ''hayat'' sections ("courts") entered through double-shuttered doors called ''kuzulu kapı'' ("lamb doors") and dotted with chimneys typical of Muğla, but there are also a number of "Greek" houses. The differences between the two types of houses may have as much to do with the extent to which wood or stone were used in their architecture, and whether they were arranged in intraverted or extraverted styles, as with who inhabited them previously.
★ Muğla City Museum - has a good collection of archaeological and ethnographical artefacts, as well as 9 million years old animal and plant fossiles recently discovered in Kaklıcatepe nearby.
The city is also home to Muğla University. The local football club, Muğlaspor currently apply their trade in the third tier of the Turkish football pyramid.
History
★ ''See Muğla Province and Caria for more information on the history of the area as a whole''
In ancient times Muğla was a rather insignificant settlement in the region of Caria, which was ruled from the larger coastal towns of Halicarnasoss or Knidos. Muğla was part of the Rhodian Peraea which was subject to Rhodes but not incorporated in the Rhodian state, and was called under the Carian name of Mobolla. There are almost no ruins to enlighten the history of the settlement of Muğla. On the high hill to the north of the city, the presence of some insignificant ancient remains indicate that an acropolis was located here. Two inscriptions unearthed within the city are from the 2nd century B.C., attesting to the Rhodian domination.
In the Turkish era Muğla remained insignificant as the local ruling dynasty the Menteşe ruled from nearby Milas, until Muğla finally acquired regional importance after it replaced Milas as the seat of the subprovince (sanjak) under the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century. The sanjak carried the name Menteşe till the Republican Era when it was renamed after its seat, Muğla.
Modern Muğla
A sleepy town of 20,000 until recently, disregarded by visitors rushing to its coastal resorts, Muğla has seen been given a new breath of life with the founding of Muğla University in the 1990s. Today the university boasts a 16,000-strong student community, which opened has the city to the outside (including international) world. Also in recent years a large programme of restoration of the city's architectural heritage has enhanced local tourism.
250-year old Muğla Konakaltı Inn
Politics
Muğla's political color has traditionally been center-left. In Turkey's 2004 local elections, Dr. Osman Gürün (CHP) was re-elected, increasing his votes to 43,28 %, aided in this by the abrupt virtual collapse of the other center-left party the DSP. The 2004 elections were the seventh successive victory for the center-left candidates in the Muğla municipality. Turkey's incumbent AKP and the traditional center-right DYP have each obtained (24,5-24.75 %). The rightist MHP campaigning on Turkish-identity consciousness arguments had a very weak presence in Muğla (1,99 %), as did the urban center-right ANAP.
Notable people from Muğla
★ Arms trading tycoon Basil Zaharoff, whose family were actually Greeks of İstanbul, but he was born in Muğla in 1849.
★ The French actress of Greek descent Anna Mouglalis, as attested by her name, can trace her roots to the city. [1]
★ Mining and poultry magnate Yavuz Sıtkı Koçman (d 2002) who contributed an important part of his fortune to building the university in the 1990s.
See also
★ Muğla University
★ Menteşe (Anatolian Turkish Beyliks)
★ Caria
External links
★ Governor's Office
★ the Municipality
★ local information
★ Mugla guide
★ Photographs and information about Muğla, Turkey guide
★ Pictures of the city
Footnotes
1. According to 1912 figures, the Sandjak of Menteşe (Muğla) had a total population of 42,000, in which 1,500-4,000 according to varying sources, were Greeks (''S. Anagiostopoulou (1997) and G. Sotiriadis (1918) for the demographic data'')
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