District guide · Manisa
Akhisar is a district of Manisa Province in western Turkey, situated on the site of the ancient city of Thyatira. The Akhisar Müzesi displays local history, whi...
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Akhisar is a district of Manisa Province in western Turkey, situated on the site of the ancient city of Thyatira. The Akhisar Müzesi displays local history, while Tepemezarı and Hastane Höyüğü preserve archaeological remains from antiquity. The district contains religious structures, several viewpoints across surrounding hills, and numerous establishments serving traditional Turkish cuisine.
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Tepemezarı
Thyatira is the ancient city underneath part of modern Akhisar, in Manisa province, and one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation.
Akhisar Müzesi
Akhisar Museum, in the Paşa neighbourhood of Akhisar district, opened on 6 August 2012 in a building with a longer history than the museum itself: built in 1932 as the Ali Şefik Hospital, endowed by Ayşe Aloğlu, it later became…
Or Yehuda Tarım Okulu
Or Yehuda Agriculture School is the surviving building of a Jewish agricultural colony and school founded near Akhisar in 1899, in what is today the Kayalıoğlu neighbourhood of Akhisar district.
Hastane Höyüğü
Hastane Höyüğü, the Hospital Mound, is an archaeological tell within the same site area as ancient Thyatira, in Akhisar, Manisa province.
Dombaycıoğlu Hanı
Dombaycıoğlu Han is a former Ottoman caravanserai in the middle of Akhisar's market district, built in 1823 by a local merchant, Dombaycıoğlu Mehmet Ağa, as trade through the town grew.
Akhisar Musevi Mezarlığı
This is the burial ground of Akhisar's Jewish community, a Sephardic congregation that at its peak numbered around 400 people and no longer exists in the town.
