Bornova is a district of Izmir Province, Turkey. Karsiyaka and Menemen districts are located in the east of the district, Kemalpaşa, Buca in the south, Konak and Bayraklı in the west, Karsiyaka and Menemen districts in the northwest, and Manisa province in the north.
It is located at the foot of Yamanlar Mountain, at 38 degrees north latitude and 27 degrees east longitude. It is located 8 km northeast of Izmir city center, 3 km east of Izmir Bay. The municipal organization was established in 1882 and became a district in 1957. The area is 220 km2.
Ege University Hospital, which is the main campus of Ege University and has the same name as the university, one of the largest hospitals in Turkey, is located in this district. In addition, the Selçuk Yaşar Campus of Yaşar University is also located in Bornova Ağaçlıyol.
Besides the two major military units, the presence of Izmir-Istanbul, Izmir-Ankara, Izmir-Aydin and Izmir-Çanakkale in the center of the highway networks, the extension of the metro to Bornova in 2000 and the Izmir Bus Station was deployed in the district, and the identification of the Bornova-Kavaklıdere-Işıkkent triangle as an industrial zone and the presence of 4 industrial sites in the residential area are among the elements that will have an impact on the development of Bornova today and in the future. Kavaklidere continues to be the lung of Izmir with its Çiçekli, Kayadibi and other districts.
Its history
Although the name was mentioned as Birunabad in the Ottoman records, the fact that the Persian word "birun" meaning "external, external" does not match well with the "-abad" jewelry (such as Islamabad, Hyderabad), which is usually used together with a special name in place names, suggests that Birunabad may be a falsified or adapted form of another name. It has also been suggested that the name originally passed as "Burunova". Bornova remained a Christian settlement until the end of the Ottoman period. Evliya Çelebi also mentions Bornova when he came to Izmir in his Seyhatnam; "But Nose-abad is a crop of them, slimy, dirty, mebrum accident, because the sentence people are sinister Rum."
The core of Bornova is the part of the neighborhood called the Erzene neighborhood today, which is behind the Government Mansion and whose former name is Poolside. Erzene, where two-storey Greek houses with gardens dating back to the 1800s can still be found (and most of them need renovation and reassessment), was first inhabited by Kavalans and Cretans after the Population Exchange of 1924, and then housed immigrants from Yugoslavia after 1950. In addition, a Roma neighborhood has been found next to Erzene since the beginning. The Kavalans took their first steps into the Turkish economy by working as tobacconists in the Bornova plain, which was an agricultural land at that time, the Cretans were engaged in vegetable fruit growing, and the Yugoslavians were employed in the factories of the region.
Bornova became a settlement preferred by the rich Levantine families of Izmir during the last periods of the Ottoman Empire and especially with the extension of a railway line from Halkapınar to here in 1865. The more spacious and cool air from the center of Izmir and the Decently landscaped mandarin gardens that existed between Izmir and the 1980s led to the construction of the British consulate residence and the magnificent mansions of many families, most of them of English origin, in Bornova (Levantines of Italian and French origin preferred Buca rather).
On an anecdotal basis, the first football match in Turkey was held in Bornova between the British sailors who came to Izmir in 1890 and the young people from Izmir, and the first athletics competitions in our country were held in Bornova Dec. 1895.
On September 9, 1922, the liberation day of Izmir, the Turkish army entered Izmir from the Belkahve Pass position in the upper part of Bornova, and on the night of September 8, when he spent the night in Nif (Kemalpasa), Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the commander of the victorious armies, saw Izmir completely underfoot for the first time from here when he reached Belkahve.
