Lake Eymir is a small lake in Ankara Province, Turkey. According to notes of Seyyah Kandemir published by the governate of Ankara in 1932, the lake was named after a Turkmen tribe named Eymür.[1]
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The lake is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the Ankara city center within the intracity district of Gölbaşı at about . The southern shore lies along the ring road O-20 of Ankara. The altitude of the water surface with respect to sea level is about 970 metres (3,180 ft). The shape of the lake roughly resembles the letter S. While the total length is a more than 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) the width is slightly less than 500 metres (1,600 ft).
The lake is an alluvial set lake. The main water input is a channel from the nearby Lake Mogan, some 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) at the south west. When the level of Lake Eymir increases beyond a certain level, the extra water is discharged to the River İmrahor.[2] During the flood in 1910, Lake Mogan and Lake Eymir had been temporarily merged with.[1]
According to 1930 travel notes of Nahit Sırrı Örik the area surrounding the lake was arid land devoid of any green plantation. In 1956, 45 square kilometres (17 sq mi) land including Lake Eymir was allocated to the Middle East Technical University (Turkish: Ortadoğu Teknik Universitesi, ODTÜ) campus. Now ODTÜ is the only university in Turkey with a lake in the campus area. Immediately after 1956, the first rector of the university Kemal Kurdaş began a forestation project around the lake. Now most of the once-barren land is a pine forest.
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