Yenipazar, Aydın

Infobox Settlement

settlement_type = Town
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = TUR
timezone=EET
utc_offset=+2
map_caption =Location of PAGENAME within Turkey.
timezone_DST=EEST
utc_offset_DST=+3

official_name = Yenipazar


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subdivision_type1=Region
subdivision_name1 = Aegean |subdivision_type2=Province
subdivision_name2 = Aydın| population_total = 15492|population_footnotes=
urban population| = 7,010
population_as_of = 2000
population_footnotes =
population_density_km2 =
area_total_km2 = 180|elevation_m = 76|postal_code_type=Postal code
postal_code = 09
blank_info = 09|blank_name=Licence plate| area_code = 256
leader_title=Mayor
leader_name = ZAFER SAVCI AKP
website =
leader_title1=Governor
leader_name1 = YILMAZ ŞİMŞEK
gwebsite = http://www.yenipazar.gov.tr

Yenipazar is a town and a small district of Aydın Province in the Aegean region of Turkey, convert|45|km|mi|0|abbr=on from the city of Aydın on the road to Denizli.

Yenipazar itself is a quiet rural town of 7,000 people providing high schools and other facilities to the surrounding district, although in the last two decades the population has declined as people move to Turkey's larger cities for higher education and careers. The local cuisine includes a delicious flat-bread pizza called pide. Adnan Menderes University has a school here offering diplomas in banking and finance, and the student population has brought Yenipazar more bars and other social amenties than you would expect from a towns of this size.

Population

year - town - district as a whole

2000 7,006 15,492

1990 8,078 17,630

Places of interest

* The house of prominent local Turkish War of Independence resistance leder Yörük Ali Efe is now a museum to his life and career.

External links

* [http://www.yenipazar.gov.tr District governor's official website]
* [http://www.yerelnet.org.tr/belediyeler/index.php?belediyeid=129299 local information] tr icon
* [http://www.yenipazarav.org/album.asp Yenipazar hunting club photo album]