Lake Eymir is a small lake in Ankara Province

Ankara Province

Ankara Province in central Turkey is the location of the country's capital, the city of Ankara.Ankara also gave its name to the Ottoman Empire's Ankara Province which covered a larger area than the current province.- Geography :...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. According to notes of Seyyah Kandemir published by the governate of Ankara in 1932, the lake was named after a Turkmen tribe named Eymür.

Geography

The lake is about 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) south of the Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

 city center within the intracity district of Gölbaşı

Gölbasi, Ankara

Gölbaşı is a town and district of the Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, south of the city of Ankara. According to a 2010 census, the population of the district is 95,109; 93,852 of which live in the town of Gölbaşı....

 at about 39°49′N 32°49′E. The southern shore lies along the ring road

Ring road

A ring road, orbital motorway, beltway, circumferential highway, or loop highway is a road that encircles a town or city...

  of Ankara. The altitude of the water surface with respect to sea level is about 970 metres (3,182.4 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 (1,640.4 ft).

Geology

The lake is an alluvial set lake. The main water input is a channel from the nearby Lake Mogan

Lake Mogan

Lake Mogan is a small lake in Ankara Province, Turkey.- Geography :The lake is south of the Ankara city center within the intracity district of Gölbaşı at about . The eastern shore lies along the highway which traverses Turkey from north to south...

, 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. During the flood in 1910, Lake Mogan and Lake Eymir had been temporarily merged with.

Near history

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 (17.4 sq mi) land including Lake Eymir was allocated to the Middle East Technical University

Middle East Technical University

Middle East Technical University is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey...

  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

Kemal Kurdas

Kemal Kurdas was Turkish Minister of Finance, the IMF’s adviser to Latin American governments and deputy head of the Turkish Treasury. But those jobs were just a small part of a long career. He went on to develop Middle East Technical University, build a distinctive campus for it and create a...

began a forestation project around the lake. Now most of the once-barren land is a pine forest.