Gördes district, Manisa

What does this district dossier connect?

Gördes brings together place records, related historical events and living-culture themes within Manisa and Inner Aegean. Records are connected with Ionia & Aeolis, The Aegean today, Ottoman era, Roman era. Current research layers include culture and memory, links to the present, deniz-doga.

History

• From Gördes Double-Knots to Sardis Aqueducts and Binkaya Phrygian Rocks: Turkish Knot, Roman Aqueducts, and Phrygian Tombs
• Emergence of the Gördes Double-Knot Carpet Craft and Royal Orders (1550 CE)

Today

• Gördes Binkaya Phrygian Rock Tombs and Cisterns
• Historic Gördes Carpet Weaving Hans and Double Knot Centers

• From Gördes Double-Knots to Sardis Aqueducts and Binkaya Phrygian Rocks: Turkish Knot, Roman Aqueducts, and Phrygian Tombs

Table

New research nodes for table and production are being prepared.

Culture

• From Gördes Double-Knots to Sardis Aqueducts and Binkaya Phrygian Rocks: Turkish Knot, Roman Aqueducts, and Phrygian Tombs
• Emergence of the Gördes Double-Knot Carpet Craft and Royal Orders (1550 CE)

Province guide

Manisa