From past to future Salihli

PRE-OTTOMAN SALİHLİ: The history of Salihli is to begin with the ancient city of Sardes (SART). It was founded by a king named Meles in the Sardes / Sart Gediz basin, on the banks of the Sart Stream and on the northern slopes of the hills west of Bozdağ.   During the Hittites period, the region where Sardes was located was mentioned as ASSUWA. It is not known whether Sardes was a village or a town or a town attached to the palace during this period. Although it was an important settlement center between the years of 1600-1000 BC, it has shown great development especially in the 7th and 6th centuries BC and became the capital of the Lydian state and gained great importance.   Industrial discoveries, money, national migration, lyrical poetry-music philosophy-astronomy-geography and sculpture in the 6th and 7th centuries, Sardes began and developed can say. Sardis has maintained its importance after the end of the Lydian State. It was the center of Satrap during the Persians, the provincial center during the Romans and the Theme center during the Byzantine period. As a result of the change of world trade routes, it has lost its importance in the late Byzantine Empire.

Seljuk Turks took Sardes in 1075. From then on, it was called Sart. Sart was taken over by the Byzantine Empire in 1098 with the support of the Crusaders. In 1313, the commander of the Germiyanogullari underwent a Turkish rule.   From the 16th century on, Salihli began to take over the function of Sart and took his place. Although it is believed that Salih Dede started with the inn in the present-day Kocaçeşme neighborhood in the east of Salihli, it is understood that this is not true.

THE OTTOMAN PERIOD SALİHLİ:   Accident in the name of Salihli (Kaza-i Sard maa Salihli) census for the first time in 1831 as a village in the 16th century archive records are found. The first document belonging to the existence of the village of Salihli belongs to the records of the population of the province of Prime Ministry, General Directorate of Archives (Istanbul). In this book, the name of a village named Veled-i Salih which is connected to the Sart Accident in Aydın province is mentioned and it is stated that the village contains 14 households (tax population).   The second important record regarding the village of Veled-i Salih (Salihoğlu) is in the Aydın mufassal title deed dated 144 981 H / 1573-1574 M. which is in the archives of the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (Ankara). i mention a village called Salih. The annual tax income is 1550 acres in the village, wheat, barley, chickpeas, cotton, cowpea, sesame, flax, hemp products are grown. In the same book in the Sart’ta 54 nefer, 6 double 5 half pairs, 30 bennak, 10 mücerrit people are mentioned that there are 2 mills in the village and wheat, barley, cowpea, sesame, chickpea, broad beans, clover, alfalfa, cultivated is described.   This village, named Veled-i Salih, mentioned in these two Ottoman archives in the 16th century and connected to the Sancağı Sart district of Aydın, is probably the first one of the city of Salihli today. The establishment of the village Salihlu (Salihler) Yoruk community can not be doubted. The fact that this name is found in many starboard accidents except the Saruhan and Aydın sancaks shows that it is a large and effective community.

In the first Ottoman census of 1831, Salihli had an accident identity with Sart, attached to the Aydın sanjak. We know that Sart was an accident in the Aydın district until that time. The fact that he was mentioned together with Salihli in this census shows that Sart’s management function has weakened. The fact that Salihli is growing and ready to take over the center of the accident is the most important reason for the growth and recognition of the city in the first half of the 19th century, the effect of the market established here on Wednesday. The other case which occurred in Salihli’s life in the 19th century except for the administrative center was that after the İzmir town railway, one of the town’s railway lines, was completed in 1866, it was decided to extend this line to Alaşehir.   This line, which is extended from Turgutlu to Alaşehir, is due to Salihli and the reason that this place is located on the caravan road. Thus, on the same road with the camels before the freight transport, the railway has left the train with the arrival of the way. The owners of the caravan have been unable to accept the railway for a long time because of the damage they suffered, they even went to sabotage and finally they had to sell their camels.

The ancient city of Sardis in Manisa is the center where gold and silver coins were used for the first time in history. This center of antiquity reaches the secondary bridge, which leads to the left between pine trees and to the left at the 3rd kilometer of the road between BiAdala and Demirköprü Dam where there are other firsts in history. At a point where the Gediz Valley was constricted, this large and elegant stone bridge, 97.5 meters in length, was built to unite the plain plains on both sides of the valley. The highest point of the bridge extending in the northwest-southeast direction is 11.5 meters and the decking including guardrails is 3.4 meters. The arch at the center of the Girl Bridge, which rises on six legs with round arches, is large and high, and the arches on both sides are of different sizes depending on the land structure. For this reason, the bridge, which descends with a slight inclination towards both sides from the keystone of the big arch, shows the architectural features of the main arched or upright arched bridges. The bridge body used in the interior of the legs and arches was built with mortar braid from gneiss and schist. The differences in workmanship with the use of basalt and similar volcanic rocks on the upper part and on the sides of the 40 cm-cm guardrail walls revealed that the girl bridge has been repaired many times. signs. r settlement. The sewage system of the Ancient City of Sardis was built by Thales, the famous mathematician of ancient times, about 2600 years ago. Made in the 660s. Thermal systems were also built in Sardes to heat shops.

The girl’s bridge has no inscription, and the inscription on the keystone of the great arch belongs to the reminder that probably is not replaced or has not reached the present day. There are different expressions and opinions about who built the bridge and the time when the bridge was found. Researcher Ibrahim Cicek “in the Adala and Villages in History” in his book “Adala’nın is a town belonging to the Lydians, passing through the Gediz River is called the Girl’s Tea, this tea belongs to the daughter of the daughter of Croesus, so the girl Bridge is said to be “narrated narrative. In the same book, “Prof. Dr. Enver Konukçu from the Department of History at Ataturk University and Gazi University Art History Department lecturer Hakki Acun examined the bridge on the spot and dated to the early Ottoman period”. (Cicek, Cetin – 2001) Art History Professor Fügen İlter “The use of circular belts in the main eyes of bridges began in the Anatolian Principalities Period. (İlter – 1978) However, Sultan Murat III of Harem-i Humayun worship Nasuh Agha Adala Bridge, which was built in 1580, and when the bridges between the bridge and the bridge, which are not known to be demolished, are considered together, it is highly probable that the girl bridge will be built after the collapse of the Nasuh Ağa Bridge. In the Gediz Basin, along the Sart, Salihli, Adala and Dibek Dağı, as well as the roads extending up to Demirci, Gördes, Kula and Alaşehir, transportation has been the only junction point where the transportation has been ensured in all seasons.