Eskigediz
Sign in to saveEskigediz is a town (belde) in the Gediz District, Kütahya Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,768 (2022). Eskigediz is the old site of Gediz, and has a history dating back to antiquity; the new town now called Gediz was built from scratch after Eskigediz was destroyed by the 1970 Gediz earthquake.
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Eskigediz is a town (belde) in the Gediz District, Kütahya Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,768 (2022). Eskigediz is the old site of Gediz, and has a history dating back to antiquity; the new town now called Gediz was built from scratch after Eskigediz was destroyed by the 1970 Gediz earthquake.
==Geography== Eskigediz is located on the upper reaches of the Gediz Çayı, 7 km from the new town of Gediz and 65 km southwest of the city of Kütahya. The town is located on hilly terrain, and just east of the town is a hill known as Hisarardı Kale, which is where the settlement originated. The Eskigediz area was historically strategically significant because it controls the only pass through the Murat Dağ mountains.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eskigediz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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