EGETÜRKİYE

Tile-colored tall factory chimney silhouette rising amidst stone buildings.
Ayvalık Olive Industrial Landscape

Research inventory

BalıkesirayvalikOttoman era

Ayvalık Olive Industrial Landscape

Reading the place

Not one monument, but a layered setting.

The Ayvalık Olive Industrial Landscape represents an inscribed UNESCO Tentative World Heritage site in the North Aegean, renowned for its 19th-century steam olive mills, Sarimsak stone mansions, over 10 million olive trees, and 1923 Population Exchange heritage.

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Balıkesir · ayvalik

Research note

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How to use this dossier

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Narratives that include this place

Periods

  • Ottoman era
  • National Struggle & Republic
  • The Aegean today

Regional context

Northern Aegean

Research sources

District guide

Ayvalık

Province guide

Balıkesir