Develi

Develi, formerly known as Averak or Everek, is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,892 km2, and its population is 66,840 (2022).

Key facts

Turkey place.type: metro district
Turkey place.name: Develi
Turkey place.image_map: Kayseri location Develi.svg
Turkey place.map_caption: Map showing Develi District in Kayseri Province
Turkey place.image_logo: Develi_Municipality_Logo.jpg
Turkey place.province: Kayseri
Turkey place.leader_party: AKP
Turkey place.leader_name: Mehmet Cabbar
Turkey place.area_total_km2: 1892
Turkey place.population_total: 66840
Turkey place.population_as_of: 2022
Turkey place.postal_code: 38400
Turkey place.area_code: 0352
Turkey place.other_name: Everek

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Population: 65322
Image: DeveliCumhuriyetMeydani.jpg

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urban population: 66507
rural population: 43857
name in kana: デヴェリ

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Develi, formerly known as Averak or Everek, is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,892 km2, and its population is 66,840 (2022).

==History== The historical name of the town is Everek and it is called Averak (ruin) in Armenian. A historian and geographer who lived in the fourteenth century, gives the name of the butcher Mustavfi as Davalu. According to him, it was a medium-sized city and its walls were rebuilt by Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin. In the work called Cihannüma, written in the seventeenth century, the town is called Davahlu.