Altınova Zeytinyağı Fabrikası
An olive-oil factory in Altınova, bringing olive-grove landscape and a listed industrial building into one record.
Balıkesir · Industrial heritage record
The factory in the inventory
The Culture Portal's cultural-inventory record identifies the building as an olive-oil factory in Altınova, Ayvalık, with inventory number 132. The page demonstrates why it matters to keep a record that shows its source but also its gaps: location and listing are visible, while history is not yet complete.
The trace of a protection decision
The record gives a 13 November 1993 decision, number 3522, of the Balıkesir Cultural and Natural Heritage Conservation Board as its listing information. Because the same record offers limited information on construction date, architecture and use, this dossier carries uncertainty as a research question rather than filling it with invented detail.
Not separating the factory from olive
The official geographical-indication page for Ayvalık Olive Oil says the product is made from Ayvalık-Edremit oil olives and lists air currents associated with the Madra and Kaz Mountains among distinguishing environmental factors. The factory is therefore not a façade alone but the industrial side of relations among tree, harvest, transport, pressing and market.
Making missing fields a research agenda
The inventory page's fields for use, repair and detailed description do not suffice to explain present condition. When the map CSV arrives, this building will need a verification note protecting ownership and access sensitivity, permission for current photography and a dated field source; until then, the page will make no definitive claim about use.
Caring for industrial heritage with open records
The Altınova record shows that the inventory must work not only for richly documented places but also for buildings with incomplete information and a protection decision. This approach makes Ayvalık's olive groves, factories, depots and harbour relations researchable as a network even before fieldwork.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Altınova Zeytinyağı Fabrikası?
Altınova Zeytinyağı Fabrikası is presented in this guide as a industrial heritage record in Balıkesir.
How can I find sources for Altınova Zeytinyağı Fabrikası?
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