Alaçatı
mahalle (administrative quarter) in Çeşme, İzmir, western Turkey
Alaçatı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çeşme, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 10,386 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). It is on the Western coast of Turkey, often noted for its architecture, vineyards, windmills, and sea.
Alaçatı is one of the most traditional towns in Turkey, it is famed for its former Greek village with stone houses, narrow streets, boutique hotels and restaurants with tables on the streets. The area is also home to the Alaçatı yacht marina and the famous Port Alaçatı development, created by the French architect Francois Spoerry and his son, Yves Spoerry.
Etymology
There are various theories about the formation of the name of Alaçatı. Some sources claim that the name of the city formulated in the plural number and is considered to have its origin from the ancient Greek word ἅλς (als) - ἅλας (alas), "salt", plural ἅλατα (alata), "salts", in the Demotic Greek αλάτι (alati), "salt", plural αλάτια (alatia), "salts", which enunciate as Alatzata and Alatsata either due to Turkish alteration of the language (e.g. in Turkish, the word “kalderim” (meaning cobbled road - originated from the Greek kallidromon) or according to a local Greek dialect.
During the Ottoman Empire, the word is referred to as the adjective «the alatsatikos» which was a tax collected on salt.
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