Denizli | |
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City | |
 View of the city from above | |
 Emblem of Denizli Metropolitan Municipality | |
  Denizli Location of Denizli  Denizli Denizli (Europe)  Denizli Denizli (Asia) | |
| Coordinates: 37°47′00″N 29°05′47″E / 37.78333°N 29.09639°E | |
| Country |  Turkey |
| Region | Aegean Region |
| Province | Denizli Province |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Bülent Nuri Çavuşoğlu[1] (CHP) |
| Elevation | 324 m (1,063 ft) |
| Population (2022)[2] | |
| • Urban | 651,200 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Postal code | 20x xx |
| Area code | (0090) 258 |
| Licence plate | 20 |
| Website | www.denizli.bel.tr |
Denizli is a city in Aegean Turkey, and seat of the province of Denizli. The city forms the urban part of the districts Merkezefendi and Pamukkale, with a population of 651,200 in 2022.[2]
Denizli has seen economic development in the last few decades, mostly due to textile production and exports.[3][4]
Denizli also attracts visitors to the nearby mineral-coated hillside hot spring of Pamukkale, and with red color thermal water spa hotels Karahayıt, just 5 kilometres (3 miles) north of Pamukkale. Recently, Denizli became a major domestic tourism destination due to the various types of thermal waters in Sarayköy, Central/Denizli (where Karahayıt and Pamukkale towns are located), Akköy (Gölemezli), Buldan (Yenicekent), and Çardak districts.
The ancient ruined city of Hierapolis, as well as ruins of the city of Laodicea on the Lycus, the ancient metropolis of Phrygia, are nearby. Also in the vicinity of Honaz, about 10 mi (16 km) west of Denizli is, what was, in the 1st century AD, the city of Colossae.
The weather is hot in Denizli in summers, whereas in winters, it may occasionally be very cold with snow on the mountains that surround the city. Some years, snow can be observed in the urban areas. Springs and autumns are rainy, with a mild warm climate.
- ^ "Özgeçmişi". Archived from the original on 2020-01-31. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
- ^ a b "Denizli". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ Bernard Fingleton; Ayda Eraydın; Raffaele Paci; Bilge Armatlı Köroğlu; Burak Beyhan (2003). Regional Economic Growth, SMEs and the Wider Europe, Chapter 11: The changing role of SMEs in the regional growth process: The case of Denizli. Ashgate Publishing. p. 229. ISBN 0-7546-3613-5.
- ^ Hüseyin Özgür, Pamukkale University. "Integration of a Local Economy to the Global and European Markets through Export–Led Growth and Specialized Textile Products Export: Home Textile Production in Denizli – Turkey" (PDF). University of Łódź. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-04-18.