Çivril

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Çivril is an attractive rural district of Denizli Province of Turkey, on a plain northeast of the city of Denizli, in fact nearer to Uşak.

The weather is dry and hot in summer, cold in winter. There was a railway line though here, which was closed in 1988.

The villagers of Çivril are mostly occupied with growing the district's well-known tasty apples. Many more migrated to work in Germany and other European countries in the 1950s. Thus Çivril has a number of wealthy citizens living abroad or in Istanbul and in summer is swollen with returning families on holiday. But in general this is a typical quiet rural Anatolian district.

[edit] Places of interest

• To the north of the district is the beautiful town of Gurpinar which was formally known as Bulkaz.
• Beycehöyük During an excavation carried out by the British achaeologists Prof. Seton Lloyd and Prof. James Mellaart between 1953 and 1959 at Beycehöyük, 6km South of the town of Civril, several antiquities of the Copper Age dating back to 3000 BC were found. It is assumed that Beycehöyük was the centre of the Arzawa kingdom, contemporaries of the Hittite Empire. Later on Phrygians, Carians, Lydians, Persians and Macedonians passed through the region during recorded history but left very few traces. It is assumed that the relics of raiders and chariots in mounds and on rocks found at Yavuzca farm, 20 km from Civril, date back to the Phrygians. The tomb on Beyce Höyük is from Seljuk times.

	Districts of Denizli Province
Denizli | Acıpayam | Akköy | Babadağ | Baklan | Bekilli | Beyağaç | Bozkurt, Denizli | Buldan | Çal | Çameli | Çardak | Çivril | Güney | Honaz | Kale, Denizli | Sarayköy | Serinhisar | Tavas