Babadağ, Denizli Explained

Type:metro district
Babadağ
Coordinates:37.8069°N 28.8561°W
Province:Denizli
Leader Party:AKP
Leader Name:Murat Kumral
Area Total Km2:124
Population Total:6340
Population As Of:2022
Postal Code:20480
Area Code:0258

Babadağ, formerly Kadıköy, is a municipality and district of Denizli Province, Turkey.[1] Its area is 124 km2,[2] and its population is 6,340 (2022).[3] It is a highland town, reached by a steep, winding road uphill from the town of Sarayköy. It was known in antiquity as Salbacos.

Agriculture is hard on this mountainside and thus the people have been making a living from stitching clothing in Babadağ for a long time, and others have migrated to Denizli, İzmir and Istanbul. Thus this is the hometown of many of Denizli's successful traders and textile entrepreneurs. Babadağ dollar is Denizli slang for the expression my word is my bond. There are still active workshops in the town, which is also a popular mountain summer holiday location.

The area is characterized by the existence of geological fault zones,[4] which have contributed in the past to the occurrence of many landslides.[5] There was also a high risk of landslides in town, which led the government to evacuate Gündoğdu, a steeply sloped urban district of Babadağ, in 2006. The homes of about 2000 persons were destroyed to prevent uncontrolled return of their former inhabitants, many of whom relocated to newly built houses in the provincial capital Denizli.[6]

In 2019, a large wind park was built on the mountain crest southwest of Babadağ. The towers are visible from many locations in town. The wind park runs along the border between the provinces Denizli und Aydın and is known as Denizli Wind Power Plant. It consists of 22 wind turbines with a total installed power of 74.8 MW. The project was co-financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.[7] The plant was built by Siemens Gamesa and went on the power grid in 2019/2020. It is operated by the Turkish company Akfen Renewable Energy as part of Akfen Holding.[8] [9]

Composition

There are 12 neighbourhoods in Babadağ District:[10]

Notable natives

Notes and References

  1. https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi
  2. Web site: İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri. General Directorate of Mapping. 12 July 2023.
  3. Web site: Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports. 12 July 2023. TÜİK. en. XLS.
  4. Book: Ozdemir, Esra Burcu. Structural Evolution of the Babadag Fault Zone in Denizli Graben, South Western Turkey. 2005. Master Thesis, Graduate College, Oklahoma State University.
  5. Lazecky. M.. Potential of Sentinel -1a for nation-wide routine updates of active landslide maps. Comut. F. C.. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences . Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH, Göttingen, Germany. 2016. Presentation at the XXIII ISPRS Congress, Commission VI, Prague, Czech Republic July 12-19, 2016. International Archives of the Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 41. 775–781. 10.5194/isprsarchives-XLI-B7-775-2016. 1 . free .
  6. Book: Comut. F. C.. Initial results of a surface deformation by using InSAR techniques: Case study of Babadag (Denizli), Turkey. Gürboga. S.. Springer. 2015. Ruzickova. K.. Surface Models for Geosciences, Chapt. 7. 73–86. 10.1007/978-3-319-18407-4_7. 978-3-319-18406-7 . 1. Inspektor. T..
  7. Web site: Denizli Wind Power Plant. European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. en.
  8. Web site: Renewable energy. Akfen Corporation. en.
  9. Web site: Akfen energy to invest TL 1.6B in wind power. Daily Sabah. 2018-03-24. en.
  10. https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle
  11. Web site: Our Founder. Zorlu Corporation. en.
  12. Web site: Zorlu Holding Board of Management. Zorlu Corporation. en.

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