🇹🇷 Edremit is a city and district of Balıkesir Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is situated at the tip of the gulf with the same name, with its town centre a few km inland, and is an important centre of trade, along with the other towns that are situated on the same gulf. It is also one of the largest district centres of Balıkesir Province. The district of Edremit, especially around Kazdağı, is largely covered with forests.
History The modern city of Edremit is named after the ancient city of Adramyttion (Ἀδραμύττιον) or Adramytteion (Ἀδραμύττειον), a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Aeolis which is in near city Modern Burhaniye
Tahtacı Turkmen, descendants of the army of Shah Ismail I, settled in the mountains near Edremit after their defeat in the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514.
By 1819, Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn reported that Edremit was only populated by "a few Greek fishermen". In 1912, the town had 6200 inhabitants, 1200 of which were Greeks. At this time, the district had 19 Greek schools and roughly 600 pupils.
In May 1914, thousands of Muslim refugees who had fled from the Balkans arrived in the town of Edremit and proceeded to ransack the shops and homes of the town's Greek community. According to Arnold J. Toynbee, the Ottoman government armed and organised the refugees. Many Greeks found refuge in the town church before fleeing to the harbour where they were then granted passage to the neighbouring island of Lesbos. Turks continued to massacre or evict Greeks in the following months in surrounding villages. The Greek army occupied the town on 19 June 1920 but withdrew in late August 1922 and all remaining Greeks fled or were killed by the Turkish army.
Economy Edremit's economy relies largely on the production of olives, as well as on tourism. Edremit is known as the olive capital of Turkey. Kaz Dağı National Park, extending around the ancient Mount Ida (mentioned in Homer's epic poems such as the Iliad), is situated within the boundaries of Edremit district and is an important tourist attraction with its natural scenery and a number of picturesque small villages around it.
Edremit has a population of over 154,500 people. Edremit also forms part of the wider Balıkesir Province which has a population of over 1,229,000 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Edremit has links with:
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🇺🇸 Westminster 39.575
🇪🇸 Palma de Mallorca 39.572
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🇺🇸 Glenwood Springs 39.55
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Locations Near: Edremit 27.02,39.5922
🇹🇷 Burhaniye 26.95,39.5 d: 11.9
🇹🇷 Bergama 27.178,39.125 d: 53.7
🇬🇷 Mytilene 26.552,39.104 d: 67.6
🇹🇷 Çanakkale 26.4,40.15 d: 81.5
🇹🇷 Balıkesir 27.883,39.633 d: 74.1
🇹🇷 Gelibolu 26.667,40.4 d: 94.7
🇹🇷 Akhisar 27.833,38.917 d: 102.7
Antipodal to: Edremit -152.98,-39.592
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 17540.7
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 17071
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16711.6
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16613.1
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 13415.6
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 13299
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 13281.6
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 13279.9