Lake Eğirdir

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Lake Eğirdir
The lake with the town (on the left) and the two islands with the causeway

Eğirdir (Turkish: Eğirdir Gölü, formerly Eğridir) is the name of a lake and of the town situated on the shore of that lake (Eğirdir) in Turkey. The lake is 186 kilometers (116 miles) north of Antalya. It is the fourth largest (second largest freshwater) lake in Turkey.

1 Name
2 Islands
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Name

The town and the lake were formerly called Eğridir, a Turkish pronunciation of the town's old Greek name Akrotiri. Unfortunately, Eğridir means "it is crooked" in Turkish. Therefore, to remove the negative connotations of the name, in the 1980s the “i” and the “r” were transposed in a new official name, thus creating Eğirdir, a name that evokes spinning and flowers, although many people in Turkey still call both the town and the lake by its former name. [1]

[edit] Islands

Lake Eğirdir has two islands, connected to the mainland by a long causeway into the town of Eğirdir:

Canada (meaning "Life Island") the smallest of the two islands.
Yeşilada ("Green Island", formerly known as Nis) - until 1923, was home to a Greek community living in stone and timber houses.