Soma district, Manisa

What does this district dossier connect?

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

History

• Saint Paul's Encounter with Lydia of Thyateira the Purple Cloth Merchant (50 CE)
• From Thyateira Purple Cloth to Demirci Carpets and Darkale Stone Houses: Seven Churches, Wool Rugs, and Tarhala Cliff Houses

Today

• Soma Darkale (Tarhala) Historic Stone Houses and Kırkoluk

• From Thyateira Purple Cloth to Demirci Carpets and Darkale Stone Houses: Seven Churches, Wool Rugs, and Tarhala Cliff Houses

Table

New research nodes for table and production are being prepared.

Culture

• Saint Paul's Encounter with Lydia of Thyateira the Purple Cloth Merchant (50 CE)
• From Thyateira Purple Cloth to Demirci Carpets and Darkale Stone Houses: Seven Churches, Wool Rugs, and Tarhala Cliff Houses

Province guide

Manisa