Geography

Gökçen is a town in Tire

Tire, Izmir

Tire is a populous district, as well as the center town of the same district, in İzmir Province in western Turkey. By excluding İzmir's metropolitan area, it is one of the prominent districts of the province in terms of population and is largely urbanized at the rate of 55.8%...

 district of İzmir Province at 38°07′N 27°52′E . It is situated in bottom land and along a tributary of Büyük Menderes River. The distance to Tire is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) and to İzmir

Izmir

Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...

  is 90 kilometres (55.9 mi). The population of Gökçen is 2524 as of 2010

History

The area around the town was inhabited during the Lydia

Lydia

Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....

n era (6th century BC and before) age. But the town of Gökçen was established in 1957 by merging two villages. Both of villages were Aydınoğlu

Aydinoglu

The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty , also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin , was one of the Anatolian beyliks...

 villages in the 14th century. (Aydınoğlu or Aydın was a Turkmen beylik later merged to Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

) One was called Fetih (later Fata) and the other Karaehat (later Kahrat) The new name Gökçen refers to Gökçen Efe

Gökçen Efe

- Life :He was born in Ödemiş, İzmir Province. His real name was Hüseyin. But he used the name Gökçen Efe after choosing to live an Efe life as an assistant of the well known efe Çakırcalı Mehmet who was his relative...

a hero of Turkish War of Independence who was killed in Fata during the war.

Economy

Cattle breeding is the most important economic sector of the town. Olives and vatrious fruits are among the main agricultural crops.There is also a tomato souce factory and a sand quarry in the town