Geyre
Geyre is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Karacasu, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 774. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.
- Type: Village with 774 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Karacasu, Aydın, southwestern Turkey
- Also known as: “Aphrodisias” and “Geğre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aphrodisias and Sebasteion at Aphrodisias.
Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias is the ruin of a Roman city in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its wealth of remains. Geyre is the small modern village next to it, deriving its name from Caria an early Grecian state absorbed by the Roman Empire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Güzelbeyli and Ataköy.
Güzelbeyli
Village
Güzelbeyli is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Karacasu, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 254. Güzelbeyli is situated 2½ km west of Geyre.
Ataköy
Village
Ataköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Karacasu, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,073. Ataköy is situated 3½ km north of Geyre.
Yeşilyurt
Village
Yeşilyurt is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Karacasu, Aydın Province, Turkey. Its population is 81. Yeşilyurt is situated 5 km southwest of Geyre.
Geyre
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Karacasu, Aydın Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
37.70965° or 37° 42′ 35″ north
Longitude
28.71084° or 28° 42′ 39″ east
Population
774
Elevation
515 metres (1,690 feet)
Open location code
8G9CPP56+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Geyre” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Geyre”
- Chechen: “Гейре”
- Chinese: “Geyre”
- Dutch: “Geyre”
- French: “Geyre”
- Irish: “Geyre”
- Italian: “Geyre”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Geyre”
- Russian: “Гейре”
- Serbian: “Гејре”
- Tatar: “Гейре”
- Turkish: “Aphrodisias”
- Turkish: “Geyre”
- Urdu: “گئیرے”
- Vietnamese: “Geyre, Karacasu”
- Vietnamese: “Geyre”
- “Aphrodisias”
- “Geyre”
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