Sultanhisar
Sultanhisar is a municipality and district of Aydın Province, Turkey. Its area is 220 km2, and its population is 20,230. It is 30 km east of the city of Aydın on the road to Denizli.Photo: Memty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nysa on the Maeander and Acharaca.
Nysa on the Maeander
Photo: Musti, Public domain.
Nysa on the Maeander was an ancient city and bishopric of Asia Minor, whose remains are in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province of Turkey, 50 kilometres east of the Ionian city of Ephesus, and which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Acharaca
Acharaca was a village of ancient Lydia, Anatolia on the road from Tralles to Nysa on the Maeander, with a Ploutonion or a temple of Pluto, and a cave, named Charonium, where the sick were healed under the direction of the priests. Acharaca is situated 4 km west of Sultanhisar.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kabaca and Eskihisar.
Kabaca
Village
Kabaca is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Sultanhisar, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 289.
Eskihisar
Village
Eskihisar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Sultanhisar, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,129. Eskihisar is situated 2½ km northwest of Sultanhisar.
Güvendik
Village
Güvendik is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Sultanhisar, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 60. Güvendik is situated 4 km north of Sultanhisar.
Sultanhisar
- Type: Town with 20,300 residents
- Description: district and town of Aydın, Turkey
- Category: locality
- Location: Sultanhisar İlçesi, Aydın Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
37.89008° or 37° 53′ 24″ northLongitude
28.15434° or 28° 9′ 16″ eastPopulation
20,300Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)United Nations Location Code
TR SHROpen location code
8G9CV5R3+2POpenStreetMap ID
node 256907869OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Sultanhisar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سلطان حصار”
- Arabic: “قضاء سلطان حصار”
- Asturian: “Sultanhisar (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Sultanhisar”
- Bulgarian: “Султанхисар”
- Cebuano: “Sultanhisar”
- Chechen: “СултанхӀисар”
- Chinese: “Sultanhisar”
- Chinese: “苏丹希萨尔”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sultanhisar”
- Dutch: “Sultanhisar”
- Esperanto: “Sultanhisar”
- Finnish: “Sultanhisar”
- French: “Sultanhisar”
- German: “Sultanhisar”
- Greek: “Σουλτάνχισαρ”
- Irish: “Sultanhisar”
- Italian: “Distretto di Sultanhisar”
- Lak: “СултанхӀисар”
- Lithuanian: “Sultanchisaras”
- Malay: “Sultanhisar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sultanhisar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sultanhisar”
- Norwegian: “Sultanhisar”
- Persian: “سلطان حصار”
- Serbian: “Султанхисар”
- Swahili: “Sultanhisar”
- Tatar: “Султанхисар”
- Turkish: “Sultanhisar”
- Urdu: “سلطان حصار”
- Vietnamese: “Sultanhisar”
- Western Mari: “Султанхисар”
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