Editing Edremit, Balıkesir

{{Other uses|Edremit (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox Turkey place
| type                 = metro district
| name                 = Edremit
| image_skyline        = Altinoluk.jpg
| image_caption        = [[Altınoluk]]
| image_map            = Balıkesir location Edremit.svg
| map_caption          = Map showing Edremit District in Balıkesir Province
| coordinates          = {{coord|39|35|32|N|27|01|12|E|region:TR|display=inline,title}}
| province             = Balıkesir
| leader_party         = CHP
| leader_name          = Mehmet Ertaş
| leader_name1         = 
| area_total_km2       = 682
| elevation_m          = 29
| population_footnotes = <ref name=tuik/>
| population_total     = 167901
| population_as_of     = 2022
| postal_code          = 10300
| area_code            = 0266
| website              = {{url|http://www.edremit.bel.tr/}}
}}
'''Edremit''' is a municipality and [[Districts of Turkey|district]] of [[Balıkesir Province]], [[Turkey]].<ref>[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 8 June 2023.</ref> Its area is 682&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.harita.gov.tr/uploads/files-folder/il_ilce_alanlari.xlsx|title=İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri|publisher=General Directorate of Mapping|access-date=22 May 2023}}</ref> and its population is 167,901 (2022).<ref name=tuik>{{Cite web |title=Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports|url=https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/medas/?kn=95&locale=en |access-date=22 May 2023|publisher=[[TÜİK]]|language=en|format=XLS}}</ref>

It is situated at the tip of the gulf with the same name ([[Gulf of Edremit]]), with its town centre a few kilometres inland, and is an important centre of trade, along with the other towns that are situated on the same gulf (namely [[Ayvalık]], [[Gömeç]], [[Burhaniye]] and [[Havran, Balıkesir|Havran]]). It is also one of the largest district centres of Balıkesir Province. The district of Edremit, especially around Kazdağı, is largely covered with forests. The mayor of Edremit municipality is Selman Hasan Arslan.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gazete|first=Banka|date=22 November 2021|title=Edremit Belediyesi zeytinleri hasat ediliyor|page=https://gazetebanka.com/|work=Gazete Banka|url=https://gazetebanka.com/edremit-belediyesi-zeytinleri-hasat-ediliyor/11461/|access-date=22 November 2021|archive-date=22 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222155240/https://gazetebanka.com/edremit-belediyesi-zeytinleri-hasat-ediliyor/11461/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== History ==
{{Main|Adramyttium}}
The modern city of Edremit is named after the ancient Greek city of [[Adramyttion]] ({{lang|grc|Ἀδραμύττιον}}) or Adramytteion (Ἀδραμύττειον), a city of [[Asia Minor]] on the coast of [[Aeolis]] which is in near city Modern [[Burhaniye]]

[[Alevism|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.{{sfnp|Ayliffe|2003|p=518}}

By 1819, [[Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn]] recorded that Edremit was only populated by "a few Greek fishermen".{{sfnp|Dearborn|1819|pp=51–52}} In 1912, the town had 6200 inhabitants, 1200 of which were [[Greeks]].{{sfnp|Pétridès|1912|loc=coll. 595-596}} At this time, the district had 19 Greek schools and roughly 600 pupils.{{sfnp|Dieterich|1918|p= 45}}

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 [[Greek refugees]] found refuge in the town church before fleeing to the harbour where they were then granted passage to the nearby Greek island of [[Lesbos]]. Turks continued to massacre or expel Greeks in the following months in surrounding villages as part of the wider [[Greek genocide]] throughout Turkey.{{sfnp|Milton|2009|pp=48–50}}

Amidst the [[Greek Summer Offensive]] of the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922]], Edremit was seized by the [[Army of Asia Minor]] on 19 June 1920 and a Turkish [[Turkish National Movement|Nationalist]] counterattack near the town was repelled.{{sfnmp|Kiminas|2009|1p=81|Erickson|2021|2p=63}} It remained under Greek control until their withdrawal in late August 1922, following which all remaining Greeks fled or were killed by the Turkish army.{{sfnp|Kiminas|2009|p=81}}

==Composition==
There are 47 [[mahalle|neighbourhoods]] in Edremit District:<ref>[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.</ref>
{{div col|colwidth=12em}}
* [[Akçay, Edremit|Akçay]]
* Altınkum
* [[Altınoluk]]
* Arıtaşı
* Atatürk
* Avcılar
* Beyoba
* Bostancı
* Çamcı
* Camivasat
* Çamlıbel
* Cennetayağı
* Çıkrıkçı
* Cumhuriyet
* Darsofa
* Dereli
* Doyuran
* Eroğlan
* Gazicelal
* Gaziilyas
* [[Güre, Edremit|Güre]]
* Güre-Cumhuriyet
* Hacıarslanlar
* Hacıtuğrul
* Hamidiye
* Hekimzade
* İbrahimce
* İkizçay
* İskele
* Kadıköy
* Kapıcıbaşı
* Kavlaklar
* Kızılkeçili
* Mehmetalanı
* Narlı
* Ortaoba
* Pınarbaşı
* Şahindere
* Sarıkız
* Soğanyemez
* Tahtakuşlar
* Turhanbey
* Tuzcumurat
* Yaşyer
* Yaylaönü
* Yolören
* [[Zeytinli]]
{{div col end}}

==Climate==
Edremit has a [[hot-summer Mediterranean climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]]: ''Csa''),<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Table 1 Overview of the Köppen-Geiger climate classes including the defining criteria. |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02549-6/tables/1 |journal=Nature: Scientific Data |language=en}}</ref> with hot, dry summers, and cool, wet winters.

{{Weather box
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 | location    = Edremit, Balıkesir (1991–2020)
 | Jan high C = 12.0
 | Feb high C = 13.1
 | Mar high C = 16.2
 | Apr high C = 20.7
 | May high C = 26.2
 | Jun high C = 31.0
 | Jul high C = 33.7
 | Aug high C = 33.8
 | Sep high C = 29.4
 | Oct high C = 23.8
 | Nov high C = 18.2
 | Dec high C = 13.4
 | year high C = 22.7
 | Jan mean C = 7.6
 | Feb mean C = 8.4
 | Mar mean C = 10.9
 | Apr mean C = 14.9
 | May mean C = 20.2
 | Jun mean C = 24.9
 | Jul mean C = 27.7
 | Aug mean C = 27.7
 | Sep mean C = 23.1
 | Oct mean C = 18.0
 | Nov mean C = 13.0
 | Dec mean C = 9.2
 | year mean C = 17.2
 | Jan low C = 4.0
 | Feb low C = 4.6
 | Mar low C = 6.3
 | Apr low C = 9.6
 | May low C = 14.3
 | Jun low C = 18.8
 | Jul low C = 21.9
 | Aug low C = 22.3
 | Sep low C = 17.8
 | Oct low C = 13.5
 | Nov low C = 9.0
 | Dec low C = 5.9
 | year low C = 12.4
 | precipitation colour = green
 | Jan precipitation mm = 95.19
 | Feb precipitation mm = 98.15
 | Mar precipitation mm = 73.43
 | Apr precipitation mm = 60.59
 | May precipitation mm = 34.88
 | Jun precipitation mm = 23.63
 | Jul precipitation mm = 5.8
 | Aug precipitation mm = 4.7
 | Sep precipitation mm = 26.9
 | Oct precipitation mm = 70.16
 | Nov precipitation mm = 94.57
 | Dec precipitation mm = 103.72
 | year precipitation mm = 691.72

 | unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
 | Jan precipitation days = 8.3
 | Feb precipitation days = 7.4
 | Mar precipitation days = 6.7
 | Apr precipitation days = 6.0
 | May precipitation days = 4.7
 | Jun precipitation days = 2.9
 | Jul precipitation days = 1.6
 | Aug precipitation days = 1.2
 | Sep precipitation days = 3.0
 | Oct precipitation days = 4.4
 | Nov precipitation days = 7.1
 | Dec precipitation days = 8.6
 | year precipitation days = 61.9

 | Jan humidity = 69.0
 | Feb humidity = 66.5
 | Mar humidity = 62.8
 | Apr humidity = 60.6
 | May humidity = 55.5
 | Jun humidity = 50.2
 | Jul humidity = 45.9
 | Aug humidity = 47.8
 | Sep humidity = 54.2
 | Oct humidity = 63.2
 | Nov humidity = 68.8
 | Dec humidity = 69.9
 | year humidity = 59.5
 | source = [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]<ref name="WMONormals">{{cite web
|url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/2.2/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Turkiye/CSV/Edremit_17145.csv
|title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991-2020 — Edremit
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|access-date = January 14, 2024}}</ref>
}}

== 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.

== Demographics ==
In ethno-cultural terms, the population of Edremit is a mixture of [[Turks in the Balkans|Balkan Turks]] and Balkan [[Albanians]], descendants of immigrants from [[Balkan Wars|Balkans]], [[Aegean Islands]], some [[Circassians]], as well as Tahtacı [[Turkmens]], who pursue their own traditions and life-style to this day. A private museum of ethnography in the village of Tahtakuşlar is one of the rare institutions in Turkey focusing on Tahtacı culture.

== Notable people ==
* [[Germanos Karavangelis]] (1866–1935), Metropolitan Bishop of [[Kastoria]] and later [[Amasya|Amaseia]]
* [[Benjamin I of Constantinople]] (1871–1946), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
* Panos Dukakis (1896–1979), father of American politician [[Michael Dukakis]]
* [[Sabahattin Ali]] (1907–1948), author and journalist
* [[Hülya Avşar]] (b. 1963), actress
* [[Caner Erkin]] (b. 1988), professional footballer

==Twin towns — sister cities==
Edremit is [[town twinning|twinned]] with:
*{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Amaliada]], [[Greece]] since 2000
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Kamp-Lintfort]], [[Germany]] since 2009
*{{flagicon|Mongolia}} [[Erdenet]], [[Mongolia]] since 2010
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Nicolosi]], [[Italy]] since 2010 <ref>[http://balikesir.bel.tr/documents/file/bb_FoldersFiles/KY14_Karde%C5%9F%20%C5%9Eehirler-031a5a69-a5ce-42fb-b9cb-bfc003ee61f8.pdf Sister/Twin Cities of Balıkesir Province]</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist|2}}

==Bibliography==
*{{Cite book|last=Ayliffe|first=Rosie |title=The Rough Guide to Turkey|year=2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbC6B1uMgSAC&q=edremit|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781843530718}}
*{{cite book|last=Dearborn|first=Henry Alexander Scammell |title=A Memoir on the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea: And the Trade and Maritime Geography of Turkey and Egypt, Vol. 2 |year=1819|url=https://archive.org/details/memoironcommerce02dear|page=[https://archive.org/details/memoironcommerce02dear/page/51 51]|quote=adramiti.|publisher=Wells & Lilly}}
*{{Cite book|last=Dieterich|first=Karl|title=Hellenism in Asia Minor|year=1918|translator=Carrol N. Brown|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55728/55728-h/55728-h.htm|publisher=Oxford University Press}}
*{{Cite book|last=Erickson|first= Edward J. |title=The Turkish War of Independence: a Military History, 1919-1923|year=2021|publisher=ABC-CLIO}}
*{{Cite book|last=Kiminas|first=Demetrius|title=The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs|year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLWqXrW2X-8C|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=9781434458766}}
*{{Cite book|last=Milton|first=Giles |title=Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922|year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Oh1PQAACAAJ|publisher=Sceptre|isbn=9780340837870}}
*{{cite book|last1=Pétridès|first1=S.|title=Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques, ed. R. Aubert & E. Van Cauwenberch, vol. 1|date=1912|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6562709t/f318.item.r=adramyttium|language=fr}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Edremit, Balıkesir}}
{{refbegin}}
* [http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/edremit Pictures of the town of Edremit]
* [https://trharitasi.com/balikesir/edremit Edremit Nerede Haritası]
{{refend}}

{{Districts of Turkey|provname=Balıkesir|image=Balikesir|sortkey=Edremit}}
{{Edremit District, Balıkesir}}
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{{eastons|Adramyttium}}
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