Akhisar
Akhisar is a city in the Central Aegean 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.
- Type: Town with 177,000 residents
- Description: district and town of Manisa, Turkey
- Also known as: “Akhisar (distritu)”, “Akhisar (ilçe merkezi)”, “Akhissar”, “Aq Hisar”, “Axari”, “Azarion”, “Manisa, Akhisar”, “Thyateira”, “Tyatira”, “Αξάρι”, “Θυάτειρα”, “Ак-Гиссар”, “Акисар”, “أقحصار”, “أَقْحِصَار”, “اق حصار”, “اقحصار”, and “アクヒサール”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Akhisar Municipal Stadium and Akhisar railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hürriyet and Ulu Camii.
Akhisar
- Categories: municipality of Turkey, city, big city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Manisa Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.9241° or 38° 55′ 27″ north
Longitude
27.8402° or 27° 50′ 25″ east
Population
177,000
Elevation
103 metres (338 feet)
UN/LOCODE
TR AHS
Open location code
8GC9WRFR+J3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Akhisar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آق حصار”
- Armenian: “Աքհիսար”
- Asturian: “Akhisar”
- Azerbaijani: “Akhisar”
- Bashkir: “Аҡхисар”
- Belarusian: “Акхісар”
- Bulgarian: “Акхисар”
- Catalan: “Ak Hisar”
- Catalan: “Akhisar”
- Cebuano: “Akhisar İlçesi”
- Cebuano: “Akhisar”
- Chechen: “АкхӀисар”
- Chinese: “阿克希萨尔”
- Chinese: “阿克希薩爾”
- Czech: “Akhisar”
- Dimli (individual language): “Akhisar”
- Dutch: “Akhisar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اخيسار”
- Esperanto: “Akhisar”
- Estonian: “Akhisar”
- Finnish: “Akhisar”
- French: “Akhisar”
- Gagauz: “Akhisar”
- Galician: “Akhisar”
- German: “Akhisar”
- German: “Thyatira”
- Gilaki: “آقحصار”
- Greek: “Ακχισάρ”
- Hebrew: “אקהיסאר”
- Irish: “Akhisar”
- Italian: “Akhisar”
- Japanese: “アクヒサル”
- Korean: “아크히사르”
- Korean: “악히사르”
- Lithuanian: “Akchisaras”
- Macedonian: “Акхисар”
- 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: “آقحصار”
- Polish: “Akhisar”
- Portuguese: “Akhisar”
- Romanian: “Akhisar”
- Russian: “Акхисар”
- Scots: “Akhisar”
- Serbian: “Akhisar”
- Serbian: “Акхисар”
- Silesian: “Akhisar”
- Slovak: “Akhisar”
- Slovenian: “Akhisar”
- South Azerbaijani: “آغحیصار”
- South Azerbaijani: “آقحصار”
- Spanish: “Akhisar”
- Swahili: “Akhisar”
- Swedish: “Akhisar”
- Swedish: “Thyatira”
- Tatar: “Акһисар (Акһисар)”
- Tatar: “Акһисар”
- Turkish: “Akhisar”
- Ukrainian: “Акгісар”
- Ukrainian: “Акхісар”
- Urdu: “اقحصار”
- Vietnamese: “Akhisar”
- Western Armenian: “Ագհիսար”
- Western Armenian: “Թիւատրիա”
- Western Mari: “Акхисар”
- Western Panjabi: “آکیسار”
- “Akhisar”
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