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is shaped as a peninsula surrounding Mugla on the east
coast with huge inlet of Akbuk town, Aegean sea on the
west and east coast, Lake Bafa and the Menderes River
on the northern coast. 106 km's to Aydin provenience,
53 km' to Söke town, 73 km's to Kusadasi, 110 km's
to Bodrum.
Spread to 300 km2. of area.
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About 15 years ago, the people
from large cities around Turkey such as Istanbul, Ankara,
Izmir first came to Altinkum ("altin: gold"
+ "kum:sand") and started to build their own
summer houses, holiday homes. when Turkey's economy started
to decline those people found very hard to survive in
the big cities most of the summer house owners who were
mainly retired people have decided to move into the small
resorts such as Altinkum.
Location
The location of today's Didim used to take part around
the Apollo temple at the ancient Didyma town. they called
the area "Yoran" (name derives from Yeuwani)
until the biggest earthquake in 1955-1956. which used
to look like a fortress and locals of Yoran later on called
it "hisar" meaning "castle". but just
after the earthquake government supported locals and build
them modern concrete houses down on the south west part
of the old civilization later on called "Yenihisar",
meaning "yeni: new" + "hisar: castle".
People of Yenihisar used to go to Söke for their
weekly shopping and Akköy used to be the biggest
town of those days. But just after tourism, the place
itself have turned into a rapidly growing holiday resort
for tourists. the unfertile tobacco fields derived ancient
Didyma (meaning twins remarkable at the temple of Apollo
Artemisia and Apollo twin sister and brothers) became
very dear and poor owners of those fields are now businessmen
(most of them) owner of their hotels, restaurants and
bars, etc.. The name was changed into "Didim"
which is one and only in Turkey including a large area
in its borders with the towns and villages leading to
it became the town center. |
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