Çivril
| Çivril | |
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 Çivril
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| Coordinates: 38°18′5″N 29°44′19″E / 38.30139°N 29.73861°ECoordinates: 38°18′5″N 29°44′19″E / 38.30139°N 29.73861°E | |
| Country |
 Turkey
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| Province | Denizli |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Gürcan Güven (AKP) |
| • Kaymakam | Armagan Önal |
| Area | |
| • District | 1,478.45 km2 (570.83 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 941 m (3,087 ft) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Urban | 18,134 |
| • District | 61,004 |
| • District density | 41/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
Çivril is a town and district of Denizli Province in the inner Aegean region of Turkey. Çivril district area neighbors those of two districts of Uşak Province to its north, namely Sivaslı and Karahallı, and four districts of Afyonkarahisar Province from the north-east to the south which are, clockwise, Sandıklı, Dinar, Dazkırı and Dazkırı, and to its south-west, three districts of the same province as itself depending Denizli. These last three are Bekilli, Çal and Baklan.
It is the most populated district of the province after Denizli center and is situated on a plain to the northeast of the city of Denizli, being actually closer to the neighboring provincial seat of Uşak.
The population of the district center is 17,989 and the whole district (including the rural area) is 61,815.
The weather is dry and hot in summer, cold in winter. The villagers of Çivril are mostly occupied with growing the district's well-known tasty apples. Many more migrated to work in Germany and other European countries in the 1960s. Thus Çivril has a number of wealthy citizens living abroad or in Istanbul and in summer is populated with returning families for holiday. But in general this is a typical quiet rural Anatolian district.
During an excavation carried out by the British achaeologists Prof. Seton Lloyd and Prof. James Mellaart between 1953 and 1959 at Beycehöyük, 6 km (4 mi) south of the town of Çivril, several artefacts dating back to the Copper Age (circa 3000 BC) were found. It is assumed that Beycehöyük was the centre of the Arzawa kingdom, contemporaries of the Hittite Empire. Later on Phrygians, Carians, Lydians, Persians and Macedonians passed through the region during recorded history but left very few traces.
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