Akhisar

Akhisar is a city in the region of Turkey. The city and district had a population of 174,850 in 2020. The only visitor attraction is the ruins of ancient Thyatira and adjacent museum.
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  • Type: Town with 177,000 residents
  • Description: district and town of Manisa, Turkey
  • Also known as: Akhissar”, “Aq Hisar”, “Axari”, “Azarion”, and “Thyateira
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Akhisar railway station and Akhisar Şehir Stadium.

Railway station
was a station in Akhisar, . Built in 1890 by the Smyrna Cassaba Railway, it remained in service until 2018, when a on the outskirts of the city.

Stadium
is a stadium in Akhisar, . The stadium has a capacity of 5,000 seats. Since 1970 it was the stadium of Akhisarspor, but the stadium finally closed in 2012.

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paşa and Hashoca.

Suburb
Photo: Pragdon, CC0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Pragdon, CC0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Akhisar

Latitude
38.9241° or 38° 55′ 27″ north
Longitude
27.8402° or 27° 50′ 25″ east
Population
177,000
Elevation
103 metres (338 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR AHS
Open location code
8GC9WRFR+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 168032569
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
324698
Wiki­data ID
Q209905
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Akhisar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: آق حصار
  • Arabic: أقحصار
  • Arabic: أَقْحِصَار
  • Armenian: Աքհիսար
  • Asturian: Akhisar (distritu)
  • Asturian: Akhisar
  • Azerbaijani: Akhisar
  • Bashkir: Аҡхисар
  • Belarusian: Акхісар
  • Bulgarian: Акхисар
  • Catalan: Ak Hisar
  • Catalan: Akhisar
  • Cebuano: Akhisar İlçesi
  • Chechen: АкхӀисар
  • Chinese: Akhisar
  • Chinese: 阿克希萨尔
  • Chinese: 阿克希薩爾
  • Czech: Akhisar
  • Dimli (individual language): Akhisar
  • Dutch: Akhisar
  • Dutch: Tyatira
  • Egyptian Arabic: اخيسار
  • Esperanto: Akhisar
  • Estonian: Akhisar
  • Finnish: Akhisar
  • French: Akhisar
  • Gagauz: Akhisar
  • Galician: Akhisar
  • German: Akhisar
  • German: Thyatira
  • Gilaki: آق‌حصار
  • Greek: Ακχισάρ
  • Greek: Αξάρι
  • Greek: Θυάτειρα
  • Hebrew: אקהיסאר
  • Irish: Akhisar
  • Italian: Akhisar
  • Japanese: アクヒサール
  • Japanese: アクヒサル
  • Korean: 아크히사르
  • Korean: 악히사르
  • Lithuanian: Akchisaras
  • Malay: Akhisar
  • Maltese: Akhisar
  • Mazanderani: آق‌حصار
  • Min Nan Chinese: Akhisar
  • Minangkabau: Akhisar
  • Moksha: Акгисар
  • Northern Frisian: Akhisar
  • Northern Luri: آق‌حصار
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Akhisar
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Akhisar
  • Norwegian: Akhisar
  • Ossetian: Акхисар
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): اقحصار
  • Persian: آق حصار
  • Persian: آق‌حصار
  • Persian: اق حصار
  • Persian: اق‌حصار
  • Polish: Akhisar
  • Portuguese: Akhisar
  • Romanian: Akhisar
  • Russian: Ак-Гиссар
  • Russian: Акхисар
  • Scots: Akhisar
  • Serbian: Akhisar
  • Serbian: Акисар
  • Serbian: Акхисар
  • Silesian: Akhisar
  • Slovenian: Akhisar
  • South Azerbaijani: آغ‌حیصار
  • South Azerbaijani: آق‌حصار
  • Spanish: Akhisar
  • Swahili: Akhisar
  • Swedish: Akhisar
  • Swedish: Thyatira
  • Tatar: Акһисар (Акһисар)
  • Tatar: Акһисар
  • Turkish: Akhisar
  • Turkish: Manisa, Akhisar
  • Ukrainian: Акгісар
  • Ukrainian: Акхісар
  • Urdu: اقحصار
  • Vietnamese: Akhisar
  • Western Mari: Акхисар
  • Western Panjabi: آکیسار

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