Turkey
İzmir Province
Ödemiş İlçesi

Birgi

Birgi is an attractive village overlooking the Küçükmenderes Valley in the Region of Turkey, with a population of 1832 in 2022. Its name derives from Greek "Pyrgion" and from the 13th to 15th century it was capital of the Aydınoğulları principality or petty kingdom, one of several formed in the power vacuum between the collapse of the Seljuks and the rise of the Ottomans.
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  • Type: Village with 1,830 residents
  • Description: village in Ödemiş, Izmir, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Balat”, “Birgi Subdistrict”, “Birlik”, and “Dios Hieron”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Çakırağa Mansion and Grand Mosque of Birgi.

Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an historical mansion in , . It is in Birgi town of ilçe at It was commissioned in 1761 by Çakıroğlu Mehmet Bey who was a wealthy merchant.

Mosque
Photo: BSRF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Birgi Grand Mosque, also called "Aydınoğlu Mehmet Bey Mosque", is a historical mosque in . The mosque is in the Birgi town in ilçe of .

Work of art
Photo: BSRF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Birgi is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 1,832. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. Its current name is a turkified version of its medieval Greek name, Pyrgion.

Birgi

Latitude
38.2541° or 38° 15′ 15″ north
Longitude
28.0655° or 28° 3′ 56″ east
Population
1,830
Elevation
326 metres (1,070 feet)
Open location code
8GCC7338+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1487662174
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
321059
Wiki­data ID
Q2220449
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Birgi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بركي”
  • Catalan: “Birge”
  • Catalan: “Birgi”
  • Cebuano: “Birgi Bucağı”
  • Chechen: “Бирги”
  • Chinese: “比爾吉”
  • Chinese: “畢爾吉”
  • Dutch: “Birgi”
  • French: “Birgi”
  • German: “Birgi”
  • Greek: “Διὸς Ἱερόν”
  • Irish: “Birgi”
  • Italian: “Birgi”
  • Japanese: “ビルギ”
  • Persian: “بیرگی”
  • Polish: “Birgi”
  • Portuguese: “Birgi”
  • Serbian: “Бирги”
  • Slovenian: “Birgi”
  • Turkish: “Birgi bucağı”
  • Turkish: “Birgi, Ödemiş”
  • Turkish: “Birgi”
  • Turkish: “Dios Hieron?”
  • Turkish: “Pyrgion”
  • Urdu: “بیرگی”
  • Uzbek: “Birgi”
  • Vietnamese: “Birgi, Ödemiş”
  • Vietnamese: “Birgi”
  • “Birgi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Birgi”. Photo: Thecatcherintherye, CC BY-SA 4.0.