Why visit Edremit
Townapedia lists 4 museums and landmarks, 5 parks and trails, 9 places to eat, 1 place to stay and 1 attraction in and around town.
Highlights include Thebe, Ayşe Sıdıka Erke Etnografya Müzesi and Şehit Hamdibey Stadyumu.
Weather in Edremit
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About Edremit
Edremit is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 682 km2 (263 sq mi), and its population is 167,901 (2022). It is situated a few kilometres inland from the Gulf of Edremit. The mayor of Edremit municipality is Selman Hasan Arslan.
From the Wikipedia article Edremit, Balıkesir (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Travel tips from other travellers: Edremit on Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Things to do1
Museums and landmarks4
Thebe
Monument and historic site · 2.5 km
Ancient city of Mysia, in modern-day Turkey
Parks, trails and playgrounds5
Restaurants and cafes9
Bal Badem
Restaurant · Dessert, Baklava, Künefe · 1.1 km
6 Yeni Garaç Caddesi, Balıkesir
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Bülent Börek
Restaurant · Börek, Su Böreği · 1.0 km
İzmir Çanakkale Yolu, Balıkesir
History
The modern city of Edremit is named after the ancient city of Adramyttion (Ἀδραμύττιον) or Adramytteion (Ἀδραμύττειον), a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Aeolis which is near the modern city of Burhaniye.
Tahtacı Turkmen, descendants of the army of Shah Ismail I, settled in the mountains near Edremit after their defeat in the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514. By 1819, Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn recorded that Edremit was only populated by "a few Greek fishermen". In 1912, the town had 6200 inhabitants, 1200 of whom were Greeks. At this time, the district had 19 Greek schools and roughly 600 pupils.
In May 1914, thousands of Muslim refugees who had fled from the Balkans arrived in the town of Edremit and proceeded to ransack the shops and homes of the town's Greek community. According to Arnold J. Toynbee, the Ottoman government armed and organised the refugees. Many Greek refugees found refuge in the town church before fleeing to the harbour where they were then granted passage to the nearby Greek island of Lesbos. Turks continued to massacre or expel Greeks in the following months in surrounding villages as part of the wider Greek genocide throughout Turkey.
From the History section of Edremit, Balıkesir on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where to stay1
Churches and places of worship8
Osmanlı Cami
Place of worship · Sunni · 1.0 km
11 Teyyareci Hasan Caddesi, Balıkesir
Shopping9
Gas and EV charging6
Schools, colleges and libraries13
Healthcare7
Map of Edremit
63 places. The map loads OpenStreetMap tiles when you open it.
Getting there and nearby towns
Balıkesir Koca Seyit Airport (EDO) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 5 km away.
- Havran 8 km southeast, about 8 min by car
- Burhaniye 12 km southwest, about 12 min by car
- Kızıklı 10 km south, about 10 min by car
- Börezli 11 km south, about 11 min by car
- Şarköy 13 km south, about 13 min by car
- Karadere 18 km south, about 18 min by car
- Altınoluk 25 km west, about 25 min by car
- Gömeç 28 km southwest, about 28 min by car
- Balıkesir 74 km east, about 1 h 15 min by car
- Çanakkale 81 km northwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.
Local news
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Sources and licences
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, coordinates, regions and time zone
- Mapillary (see each image): photos
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
- Wikidata (CC0 1.0): elevation, founding date, time zone, website, landmarks and historic places
- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Altinoluk, Original uploader was Serkolemma at tr.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5
- Keşkek ile Sünnet Düğünü - Edremit Balıkesir 3, Celal Erdogdu from Riga, Istanbul, Turkey, Latvia, CC BY 2.0
- Keşkek ile Sünnet Düğünü - Edremit Balıkesir 33, Celal Erdogdu from Riga, Istanbul, Turkey, Latvia, CC BY 2.0
- Keşkek ile Sünnet Düğünü - Edremit Balıkesir 1, Celal Erdogdu from Riga, Istanbul, Turkey, Latvia, CC BY 2.0
- Keşkek ile Sünnet Düğünü - Edremit Balıkesir 25, Celal Erdogdu from Riga, Istanbul, Turkey, Latvia, CC BY 2.0
- Keşkek ile Sünnet Düğünü - Edremit Balıkesir2, Celal Erdogdu from Riga, Istanbul, Turkey, Latvia, CC BY 2.0
- Keşkek ile Sünnet Düğünü - Edremit Balıkesir, Celal Erdogdu from Riga, Istanbul, Turkey, Latvia, CC BY 2.0
- Edremit cumhuriyet bayramı 2011 - panoramio, nevzat demir, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ancient edremit gulf, Troas.png : Original uploader was Dbachmann at en.wikipedia Later versions were uploaded by Joy at en.wikipedia . derivative work: Ollios ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0
- Meteoroloji - panoramio, Allen Turner, CC BY-SA 3.0
- İmam Hatip lisesi - panoramio, Allen Turner, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ISS066-E-130894 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS066-E-130893 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS066-E-130895 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS066-E-130896 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS066-E-130897 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- ISS046-E-40372 - View of Earth, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain
- Street-level photo, ramses, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, yercizenler, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, yercizenler, CC BY-SA 4.0
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