Develi

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

According to historical sources, cultural traces of civilizations that lived in Develi between 2500 and 2000 BC have been found. There is still a need for scientific research in Develi, which hosts many civilizations in the historical process between the Copper Age, the Bronze Age and the Seljuk Period. From 1867 until 1922, Develi was part of Angora vilayet. Following the Circassian genocide, many displaced Circassians were resettled in the region of Develi by the Ottoman Empire. According to the 1914 Ottoman population statistics, the district of Develi had a total population of 49.128, consisting of 30.948 Muslims, 15.689 Armenians, 2.085 Greeks, 404 Catholics and 2 Protestants.

The Fatih Mosque of Lower Everek (Aşağı Everek Fatih Camisi) has its origins as a 200-year-old Armenian church in Everek quarter. The decaying building was first transformed into a mosque in 1978 and, when routine maintenance works were initiated in 1998, it was discovered that the interior decoration was still very much present, simply covered with plaster as they were during the 1978 transformation. This discovery led to an ongoing divergence of opinions between the national authority for foundations, responsible for maintenance of mosques in Turkey, which is in favor of covering the cross and Virgin Mary figures again, and Kayseri Governorship's cultural protection unit which advocates a restoration to their state of origin, a move that would put an end to the edifice's use as a mosque, this use currently being restrained to a part of the building until an official decision is made. In 2004, in order to protect the cultural heritage, the works were ordered to be stopped by the then mayor of Develi, Ali Ağca, while an intermediate solution was found in between.[[File:St Toros.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Virgin Mary painting inside the old Armenian Everek/Evereg church, St. Toros, now a mosque, during renovations in 2000]][[File:DeveliCumhuriyetMeydani.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Cumhuriyet Square]]

Composition

There are 78 neighbourhoods in Develi District:

Abdulbaki
Alparslan
Aşağı Everek
Aşık Seyrani
Ayşepınar
Ayvazhacı
Bahçebaşı
Bahçelievler
Büyükkünye
Çadıryeri
Camiicedit
Çataloluk
Çayırözü
Çaylıca
Çomaklı
Çöten
Çukuryurt
Cumhuriyet
Derebaşı
Dereşimli
Develi Camikebir
E.Camikebir
Epçe
Eşelik
Fatih
Fenese Aşağı
Fenese Yukarı
Gazi
Gömedi
Gümüşören
Güney Aşağı
Güney Yukarı
Harman
Havadan
Hoşça
Hüseyinli
İbrahim Ağa
İncesu
İzmirli
Kabaklı
Kaleköy
Karacaören
Kılıçkaya
Kızık
Kopçullu
Köseler
Kozluca
Küçükkünye
Kulpak
Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Millidere
Mustafa Asım Köksal
Öksüt
Reşadiye
Şahmelik
Saraycık
Sarıca
Sarıkaya
Satı
Şehit Üsteğmen Hasan Şahan
Şıhlı
Sindelhöyük Camikebir
Sindelhöyük Fatih
Sindelhöyük Yenice
Sindelhüyük
Soysallı
Taşçı
Tombak
Yaylacık
Yazıbaşı
Yedek
Yenice
Yenihayat
Yeniköy
Yenimahalle
Yeşilyurt
Yüzevler
Zile

Logo

The logo of the Develi Municipality features the Seyrani Monument and mausoleum of Dev Ali in front of Mount Erciyes among other elements such as flamingos. It is not to be confused with the corporate identity of Develi which features a Seljuk motif, or the red logo of the Develi Kaymakamlık. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Seal_of_the_Governorship_of_Develi.png" caption="Seal]] of the Governorship of Develi" alt="Seal of the prefecture"] ::

References

External sources

Develi Municipality
Develi District Governorship
Develi web portal
Krikorian, Aleksan. Evereg-Fenesse: Its Armenian History and Traditions. Detroit, MI: Evereg-Fenesse Mesrobian-Roupinian Educational Society, 1990. 186 pp.
Evereg Fenesse Educational Society
Der-Sarkissian, Jack. “A Tale of Twin Towns: Everek and Fenesse.” Armenian Kesaria/Kayseri and Cappadocia . Ed. Richard G. Hovannisian. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 2013. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260676697_A_Tale_of_Twin_Towns_Everek_and_Fenesse

References

[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
"İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping.
"Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports". [[TÜİK]].
[[Kemal Karpat]] (1985), [https://archive.org/details/kupdf.net_kemal-karpat-ottoman-population-1830-1914-demographic-and-social-characteristics Ottoman Population, 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics], [[The University of Wisconsin Press]], p. 186
"Camiye camlı rötuş". [[NTV Turkey]].
[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
Cabbar, Mehmet. (28 July 2017). "Develi Belediyesi logosu değişti diyenlere ithafen".
(31 July 2017). "DEVELİ'DEN LOGO AÇIKLAMASI: Başkan iddialara sert cevap verdi".
"Kurumsal Kimlik".
TOZLU, Abranero, Hasan Hüseyin CİHANGİR, Mehmet KÜÇÜK, Emin TÜRKER, Muhammet Mustafa. "Agricities Uluslararası Tarım Şehirleri Birliği Web Sitesi".

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