Ortaca
Ortaca is a neighbourhood of the Karesi District, Balıkesir Province, in northwestern Turkey. Formerly a village, it was founded in the second half of the 19th century by Lezgin muhacirs from Dagestan and is one of a small number of settlements in Turkey with a Lezgin population.- Village with about 200 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 290 metres (940 feet)
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Karesi, Balıkesir, northwestern Turkey
- Also known as“Kirneköy”“Ortaca, Karesi”
- Historically known as“Dağıstanköyü”“Kirne”“Kirni”
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Latitude
39.74507° or 39° 44′ 42″ north
Longitude
27.85116° or 27° 51′ 4″ east
Open location code
8GF9PVW2+2F
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Ortaca” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ortaca”
- Catalan: “Ortaca”
- Cebuano: “Ortaca”
- Chechen: “Ортаджа”
- Czech: “Ortaca”
- Danish: “Ortaca”
- Dutch: “Ortaca”
- Finnish: “Ortaca”
- Galician: “Ortaca”
- German: “Ortaca”
- Irish: “Ortaca”
- Italian: “Ortaca”
- Lezghian: “Ортажа”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ortaca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ortaca”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ortaca”
- Polish: “Ortaca”
- Portuguese: “Ortaca”
- Romanian: “Ortaca”
- Scots: “Ortaca”
- Serbian: “Ортаџа”
- Slovak: “Ortaca”
- Slovenian: “Ortaca”
- Spanish: “Ortaca”
- Swedish: “Ortaca”
- Tagalog: “Ortaca”
- Tatar: “Ортаҗа”
- Turkish: “Dagistan”
- Turkish: “Ortaca, Balıkesir”
- Turkish: “Ortaca, Karesi”
- Turkish: “Ortaca”
- Vietnamese: “Ortaca, Karesi”
- Vietnamese: “Ortaca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ortaca”
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