Gölmarmara
Agricultural lands and forest lands each occupy roughly around 11,500 hectares in the district area, with a few thousand in the fertile plain of the Gediz River valley remaining unused. Lake Marmara, aside from being a recreational center for the province as a whole, is also an important source for fishing and agricultural irrigation. Slightly lower than the town center at 79 m (259 ft), the lake is also an Important Bird Area.
There are six primary schools and two high schools in Gölmarmara, with a total teacher's corpus of 117 and a student's corpus of 3,094. A small professional higher school depending Celal Bayar University is also located in Gölmarmara, its academic corpus composed of six teachers providing education higher education with a professional focus to 144 students.
The town's most important historical building is Halime Hatun Religious Complex built by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed III during his tenure in Manisa (1583-1595) in the name of his wet nurse and his future grand vizier Tekeli Lala Mehmed Pasha's mother-in-law Halime Hatun.
In 2015 an important archaeological discovery was made at Kaymakçı: a Middle and Late Bronze Age city (2000-1200 BC) whose area was approximately 4 times larger than that of Troy.
Composition
There are 21 neighbourhoods in Gölmarmara District:
- Atatürk
- Ayanlar
- Beyler
- Çamköy
- Çömlekçi
- Değnekler
- Eskicami
- Hacıbaştanlar
- Hacıveliler
- Hıroğlu
- İhsaniye
- İsmetpaşa
- Kayaaltı
- Kayapınar
- Kılcanlar
- Ozanca
- Taşkuyucak
- Tiyenli
- Yenicami
- Yeniköy
- Yunuslar
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