Author/Authors :
BOZYİĞİT, Recep Selçuk Üniversitesi - Ahmet Keleşoğlu Eğitim Fakültesi - Coğrafya Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı, Turkey , TAPUR, Tahsin Selçuk Üniversitesi - Ahmet Keleşoğlu Eğitim Fakültesi - Coğrafya Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı, Turkey
Abstract :
Kayaköy is located in 8 kilometres to the center of Fethiye province, Muğla city in southwest of Anatolia. Kayaköy, a typical Greek site, dates back to 3000 B.C.. In Kayaköy, previous name of which was Levissi, many chapels along the houses, two big churches, one school and a custom house besides historical stone residences survive until today. Kayaköy is a center of settlement where Greek and Turkish people lived together in richness until the establishment of Turkish Republic and populated as 6500 (according to the records of 1912).Greek people, who lived in Kayaköy in 1923, was sent to Greece because of the exchange of population. Turkish people also who came from the west of Trakya in consequence of the exchange of population was settled in Karaköy.However, many Turkish people coming there immigrated to other places because they couldn’t attuned to the life conditions of the environment. In this way, the population of Karaköy decreased considerably and the old socioeconomic life almost disappeared.This practice aimed to evaluate Karaköy appearing to be abondoned in terms of residential geography. Geographical features of Kayaköy, its importance in past, population and the growth of population, residential features, private houses, its situation today, and essential suggestions for retrieving its importance in the past constitute the subjects of this practice.
