Karpuzlu
Karpuzlu is a municipality and district of Aydın Province, Turkey. Its area is 286 km2, and its population is 10,590. It is 56 km from the city of Aydın.- Type: Town with 10,800 residents
- Description: district and town of Aydın, Turkey
- Also known as: “Alinda” and “Demircidere”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alinda and Yaylakavak Dam.
Alinda
Photo: Ana al’ain, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alinda was an inland city and bishopric in ancient Caria, in Asia Minor. Modern scholars identify Alinda with the Hellenistic foundation of Alexandria ad Latmum noted by Stephanus of Byzantium.
Yaylakavak Dam
Dam
Yaylakavak Dam is a dam in Aydın Province, Turkey, built between 1991 and 1996. The development was backed by the Turkish State Hydraulic Works. Yaylakavak Dam is situated 3½ km northwest of Karpuzlu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kovuk and Çobanisa.
Kovuk
Village
Kovuk is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Karpuzlu, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 454.
Çobanisa
Village
Çobanisa is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Karpuzlu, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 575. Çobanisa is situated 3 km east of Karpuzlu.
Gölcük
Village
Gölcük is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Karpuzlu, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 606. Gölcük is situated 3½ km northwest of Karpuzlu.
Karpuzlu
- Category: locality
- Location: Karpuzlu İlçesi, Aydın Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.55903° or 37° 33′ 33″ northLongitude
27.83609° or 27° 50′ 10″ eastPopulation
10,800Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)United Nations Location Code
TR KLUOpen location code
8G99HR5P+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 256907875OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Karpuzlu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القربوزية”
- Arabic: “القَرْبُوزِيَّةُ”
- Arabic: “قضاء القربوزية”
- Asturian: “Karpuzlu (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Karpuzlu”
- Cebuano: “Karpuzlu (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Karpuzlu”
- Chechen: “Карпузлу”
- Chinese: “Karpuzlu”
- Chinese: “卡尔普兹卢”
- Dimli (individual language): “Karpuzlu”
- Dutch: “Karpuzlu”
- Esperanto: “Karpuzlu”
- Finnish: “Karpuzlu”
- French: “Karpuzlu”
- German: “Karpuzlu”
- Hungarian: “Karpuzlu”
- Irish: “Karpuzlu”
- Italian: “Distretto di Karpuzlu”
- Lak: “Къарпузлу”
- Malay: “Karpuzlu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karpuzlu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karpuzlu”
- Norwegian: “Karpuzlu”
- Persian: “کارپوزلو”
- Serbian: “Карпузлу”
- Swahili: “Karpuzlu”
- Tatar: “Карпузлу”
- Turkish: “Alinda”
- Turkish: “Karpuzlu, Aydın”
- Turkish: “Karpuzlu”
- Urdu: “کارپوزلو”
- Vietnamese: “Karpuzlu”
- Western Mari: “Карпузлу”
- “Alinda”
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