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  Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture - Adapazarı (Sakarya)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This river that is born in the Mid-Western Anatolian plateaus, enters the city borders from the south of Pamukova, other streams add on to the river on its way to Karasu where it flows into the Black Sea.
Sakarya has been under the reign of the Kingdom of Bythnia, then Roman and Byzantine Empires; later the distant voices of the Seljuk army were heard from the Sakarya and the early legends of its conquest by the Ottoman Empire were written there.
And the Sakarya river was regarded as the life-blood, the source of life and strength that meandered within the veins of the temple, that was Anatolia.
www.kultur.gov.tr /portal/tarih_en.asp?belgeno=6485   (1126 words)

  
 [ATSO - Adapazari Chamber Of Trade And Commerce]
Especially after 70s' river transportation has again become a matter of primary importance in the world since fuel consumption, required manpower and land loss are low in river transportation; road and vehicles have long work period and there is no serious environmental risk.
River transportation has been operated centuries on the Danube River, which is conjoined with the Rhen River in 1993 to bind the Black Sea and the North Sea; The Volga and Dan Rivers were conjoined to bind Black sea over Azhak Sea to Caspian Sea in 1952.
Utilities for the loads passing from highway to river channels are not only thought as transportation systems but also shortened distances are considered, additionally energy production advantages are considered as well and as a result, it is estimated that in just one year period $52.808 million of benefit can be get from the system.
www.adptso.org.tr /atsoen/projesa.asp?Icerik=Nehir   (894 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - River Spur
Adapazarı, city in northwestern Turkey, capital of Sakarya Province, on the Sakarya River, near İzmit.
River, The, motion-picture documentary about the damage done to several American waterways by overuse and flooding.
River, any body of fresh water flowing from an upland source to a large lake or to the sea, fed by such sources as springs and tributary streams.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=River+Spur   (113 words)

  
 A report prepared for the project Establishment of Beymelek Lagoon Aquaculture Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
These greatly increase the turbidity of the river water at times of rain and during snow-melt, and this is probably a significant factor in reducing the survival of seatrout eggs and fry.
Seatrout are known to enter the river in small numbers, and may migrate upstream almost to the lake, but the very high silt content of the water must represent a danger to eggs and fry.
The Sakarya River was not visited by the authors, but it is understood that hydro-power and channelization projects similar to those on the Yeşilirmak and Kizilirmak have also been developed there.
www.fao.org /docrep/field/003/T7448E/T7448E03.htm   (3342 words)

  
 TURKISH - SAKARYA PITCHED BATTLE - FORSNET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At the end of the bloody war which lasted day and night from August 23 to September 13, the enemy forces were brought to their knees and forced leave the battlefield.
Upon the Sakarya victory, these talks yielded a positive result for the Ottoman State on 20 October 1921; and an agreement named the Ankara Mutual Agreement was signed.
The Sakarya victory became a turning point in our Liberation Struggle as far as military and politics were concerned.
www.turk-yunan.gen.tr /english/turk_greek_wars/national01_04.html   (712 words)

  
 MARMARA REGION, Discover Izmit, Sakarya, Yalova, Iznik, Nicea, Ecumenical Council by BWDK Travel Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
East of lzmit, Sakarya (Adapazari) is the provincial capital of an important agricultural and industrial region.
The Sakarya (Sangarius) River irrigates this fertile land which abounds with fruit trees and fields of vegetables.
The province of Bilecik lies southeast of Iznik in the verdant and fertile Sakarya River Valley, in the old quarter of the city stands the mausoleum of Seyh Edebi, who was an important influence in the founding of the Ottoman Empire.
www.tourarium.com /info/regions/marmara/marmara.htm   (743 words)

  
 Battle of Sakarya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Battle of Sakarya 1921 was an important engagement in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, which ended the First World War in Asia Minor divided the Ottoman Empire, assigned all these territories to Greece.
In June 1921 the Greek army advanced to the River Sakarya, less than 100km west of Ankara.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Battle_of_Sakarya   (367 words)

  
 Rivers and Lakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For example the Firate River and the Dickle River join in Iraq and flow into the Persian Gulf.
The Susurluk River, Bigam River, and the Gonen River flow into the Sea of Marmara.
Turkey's largest rivers are: The Kizilirmak River, Yesilirmak River, and the Sakarya River, all flow into the Black Sea.
www.sjr.mb.ca /ms/geo/countries/turkey/RIVERSandLAKES.htm   (142 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Unit 1 is the subaqueous prodelta deposits of the Sakarya River and is separated from Units 2 and 3 by a major erosional surface.
It is an oblique progradational delta sequence and best developed to the west of the Sakarya River mouth.
The occurrence of steep scarps of the canyon walls and the lateral displacement of canyon heads from the main canyon axis coincide with a major fault zone.
www.elsevier.com /cdweb/journals/02784343/articles/22/10/S027843430200012.abstract.en   (263 words)

  
 Paleotectonics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rapid incision of the Sakarya river changed the position of the erosion base which consequently distorted the direction of surface and subsurface flow.
Drainage have changed from subsurface to surface after the emplacement of the Sakarya river into its modern course, which, today crosses the lower Huyuk plain at the western edge.
The lower Huyuk plain is surrounded by high carbonate rock mass of Jurassic age and covered by fine alluvial deposits while the upper Golpazari plain is bordered by various rocks of different lithological and age characteristics.
karst.planetresources.net /Stara_Zagora/paleotectonics.htm   (1765 words)

  
 About Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The ancient city of Midye (Kiyikoy) crossing the Sakarya River, according to history was built on a clifftop of the Black Sea.
One of the other very important architectural works of this period is the bridge crossing the Sakarya River.
According to the writer Prakopios, "The Justinian Bridge was built over the Sakarya River by the Emperor Justinian and through the power of Divine Intercedence." This twelve-arched bridge is 430 meters long.
omarsguide.com /aboutturkey/history/byzantium/thebyzantiunesin.shtml   (1206 words)

  
 Company Profile
Considering the magnitude of the fault rupture movements and the significant ground shaking, both in terms of accelerations and velocities, the engineered structures on the highway system fared quite well.
Damage to the bridges was restricted to an area south-southeast of Sakarya (Adapazari), as shown on the map included in Figure 1.
Note shifting of the spans and the unseating of the bearings in the westbound bridge.
www.imbsen.com /turkeyquake.htm   (660 words)

  
 Istanbul and the Marmara Region The Marmara
East of Izmit, Sakarya is the provincial capital of the province of Adapazari, an important agricultural and industrial region.
The Sakarya (Sangarius) River waters this fertile land which abounds with fruit trees and fields of vegetables.
The province of Bilecik lies south of Iznik in the verdant and fertile Sakarya River valley.
www.balsoy.com /Turkiye/Marmara/TheMarmaraRegion.html   (2889 words)

  
 Sakarya River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sakarya_River   (103 words)

  
 DRAINAGE EVOLUTION ALONG THE NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE, EASTERN MARMARA-TURKEY
At the east, it is traversed by Geyve antecedant gorge drained by Sakarya River.
Late Pliocene paleo-morphology is distinctive on the Kocaeli Peninsula, situated in the northern block of the NAF between Central Marmara bend and Sakarya Basin.
Average elevation of the surface is 200 m on the peninsula and slightly tilted toward north and paleo-valleys hanged along the northern margin of the Izmit Bay.
gsa.confex.com /gsa/2004AM/finalprogram/abstract_77197.htm   (510 words)

  
 Limak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The dam is located on Bayır river in Burdur province for irrigation.
The dam is located on Dandalaz river in Aydın province for irrigation.
The dam is located at 25 km north-east of Milas District in Muğla province on Sarıçay river.
www.limak.com.tr /eng/tr-proje-baraj.htm   (316 words)

  
 NATO/CCMS Pilot Study Workshop
Stations 1 and 2 are located in the upper part of the Palmones River; Station 3 is just downstream of the dam of Charco Redondo; Stations 4, 5, 6 and 7 are located along the middle reach of the river; and the last three stations are located in the estuary.
The model will be used to assist in understanding the steady-state (i.e., time-averaged) relationships between the different areas of the river (upper, medium and estuary parts) and the influence between sediment-pore water-river water along the catchment for the most important water quality parameters.
For these two rivers, the decisions whether or not to include one or both as modeling case studies in the NATO/CCMS Nutrients Pilot Study will be made in March 2001.
home.worldonline.dk /ccms015/notes.htm   (4028 words)

  
 Battle of the Sakarya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of the Sakarya or the Battle of the Sangarios in 1921 was an important engagement in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
But in August Kemal counter-attacked, routing the Greeks at the Battle of the Sakarya (August 23 - September 13, 1921).
The Greeks retreated in good order and still hoped to defend their base at Smyrna.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Sakarya   (334 words)

  
 Turkey (Spurl.net stream)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Snip: City in southern Turkey with 180,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate), near the mouth of the Orontes River, 40 km from the Mediterranean Sea and 20 km northwest of the Syrian border.
The city is located at the junction between the rivers Tunca and Maritsa (Turkish: Meriç), and is only 7 km from the border to Greece, and 18 km from the border to Bulgaria.
It is the capital of the Elazig Province with 570,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
stream.spurl.net /Turkey?order=Atitle&direct=0   (1272 words)

  
 Black Sea Region and Eregli, hotels in Eregli,Karadeniz Ereglisi,Eregli near black sea,eregli hotels,bdget hotles im ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The land between Filyos, Bartin and the sakarya river, including Amasra, after 200years under Herakleia’s domination, was also taken over by the Bithinyans.
Herakleia Pontike, thanks to their strong fleet, were able to save what little land they had left, from the hands of the Galatians’.
Worth to visit the caves to Hades by the River Acheron (an actual river, or rather, dried up stream bed, just north of Eregli), reputed to be the site where Hercules completed his 12th and last labour, to capture Cerberus, the three headed dog guarding the entrance to Tartarus, the underworld.
www.ezoptravel.com /ezopnew/turkey/blacksea/eregli.htm   (1521 words)

  
 Anadolu Agency: News in English, 99-01-08
SAKARYA, Jan 8 (A.A) - Izmit Gulf will reach Black Sea by being connected to the Sakarya River with a 45-kilometre-canal within the scope of Sakarya River Transportation Project, it is reported on Friday.
Stressing that the cost of the Sakarya River Transportation Project is 500 million US dollars including the cost of Inner Water Route Project, Rakicioglu said, ''we plan to realize this project in build-operate- transfer (BOT) model.
Rakicioðlu said that the Sakarya River Transportation project aims to decrease the transportation costs of the industrial enterprises in their exportation to the countries which have shores to Black-Sea, and it gains importance with the Free Zone determined to be set up in the region.
www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/1999/99-01-08.anadolu.html   (4389 words)

  
 Marmara region, Turkey
Some lands in Sakarya, Bilecik, Bursa, Balikesir and Canakkale Provinces are located within the borders of the Aegean or the Black Sea Regions.
Fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins are grown on these lands, enriched with alluvium fed by the Sakarya River.
The Sakarya River flows through the center of the lands of Bilecik Province, which is a rather important province from the point of view of Ottoman history.
www.enjoyturkey.com /info/sights/marmara.htm   (1335 words)

  
 Sakarya
Un blessé à l'hopital de Sakarya, jeudi Près de 140 personnes ont été tuées jeudi dans le déraillement d'un train express.
Reis Erten, shown with his mother Fatima Sakarya and nurse Cathy Van Dyke, left, on February 25, 2005, in Ramsey, New Jersey, suffers from hypoxic encephalopathy and can't see, move or swallow.
Reis Erten, shown with his mother Fatima Sakarya on February 25, 2005, in Ramsey, New Jersey, suffers from hypoxic encephalopathy and can't see, move or swallow.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0843172.html   (310 words)

  
 FOCUS on TURKEY - Istanbul and the Marmara Region of Turkey
ast of Izmit, Sakarya is the provincial capital of the province of Adapazari, an important agricultural and industrial region.
The Sakarya (Sangarlus) River waters this fertile land which abounds with fruit trees and fields of vegetables.
In the city of Adapazari itself, the Ataturk and Ethnographical Museum display a number of the personal effects of the founder of the Turkish Republic as well as regional artifacts.
www.focusmm.com /istmarma.htm   (3063 words)

  
 ATATURK
It is doubtless that our soldiers were spiritually positively influenced by seeing their commander in the most forward line next to the assaulting detachments and the commander’s pursuing the battle in the fire line himself.
This big and bloody war named “Sakarya Battle” lasted for 22 days and nights and at last, resulted in our great victory in total destruction of the enemy in the eastern part of Sakarya river.
Greeks who were defeated by Sakarya Battle, had withdrawn till Afyon-Eskişehir line and was defending themselves by strengthening their positions in this region, and reinforcing important places with barbed wires.
www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0004/0004_16_11.htm   (836 words)

  
 Search Results for "Ada"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
174,400), capital of Adapazari prov., NW Turkey, on the Sakarya River.
It is the trade center for an agricultural...
The river flows generally south, through a large delta, to the Gulf of Guinea at Ada.
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Ada   (240 words)

  
 Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
My findings, in part, support the hypothesis that up until 50 years ago in the Sakarya River plain, animal husbandry had played a major role in the regional economy; in fact, extensive herding of sheep and Angora goats were critical to the development of a mixed farming economy in the region.
When tested against the archaeological evidence, the ethnographic model should be useful to explain the history of the ancient settlement and economy.
In the Sakarya floodplain cereal cultivation is the mainstay of the economy.
www.sas.upenn.edu /~salzmann/economy.htm   (394 words)

  
 Sakarya (Adapazari), Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
One of the cities of Marmara Region on the Sakarya Valley and along the E-5 state road.
The Sakarya (Sangrion) River passes by the city which helps the local agricultural economy tremendously.
Century, but because of its view as an island since it is situated in between of two rivers (Sakarya and Çarksuyu) and vegetable and fruit markets were set up here, the city, in time, took the name of Adapazarı (=Island Market).
www.turkey90.com /adapazari/sakarya.html   (286 words)

  
 Eskisehir, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It lies along the Porsuk River, a tributary of the Sakarya River, at a point about 125 miles (200 km) west of Ankara.
Lying near the site of the ancient Phrygian city of Dorylaeum, the present city probably began in Byzantine times as a cluster of settlements around hot springs.
The city has many places of interest; the Archaeological Museum which houses the Phrygian objects and sculptures; the Ottoman House Museum which is a very fine example of the 19th century local architecture and has many local ethnographical items.
www.adiyamanli.org /eskisehir.html   (742 words)

  
 Articles - Nikolaos Plastiras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During the botched war with Turkey from 1921-1923, General Plastiras was responsible for arresting the Greek army's retreat and stabilising the front in Thrace along the Evros River.
Soon after, at the battle of Battle of Sakarya, the Greeks were forced to begin their retreat.
After the war he had six royalist generals and politicians who were held responsible for the defeat court-marshalled and executed.
www.gaple.com /articles/Nikolaos_Plastiras?mySession=7ccef5ceefaca85a66ecd3409084904e   (537 words)

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