Var ligger Kayaköy-byn?

Kayaköy, en av de viktigaste vittnena till den senaste historien i Anatolien, ligger 8 km från Fethiyes centrum och liknar en spökby med sina övergivna stenhus. Kayaköy, en gammal grekisk by, är en av platserna att besöka runt Fethiye med sina stenhus, kyrkor och magnifika landskap, uppställda längs smala gator i en kuperad geografi.

Kayaköy, som tidigare hette Levissi innan utbytet och ligger på en sluttning, har restaurerats genom de restaureringsarbeten som utförts de senaste åren. Kayaköy, med sina många boutiquehotell, restauranger och kaféer, är en av regionens turistattraktioner med sin spännande historia och ursprungliga arkitektur.

Vad är historien bakom Kayaköy-byn (Spökbyn)?

Kayaköy genomgår en snabb omvandlingsprocess på grund av det ökande antalet besökare de senaste åren. Boutiquehotell, kaféer och restauranger som öppnar en efter en kallas de första stegen för Kayaköys återkomst, känd som "spökbyn", till sina gamla dagar.

Denna bosättning, som hade en befolkning på 10 000 fram till 1922, var en av de mest livliga platserna i regionen, med sin representativa medelhavsarkitektur, stenhus, skolor, kyrkor, bibliotek, sjukhus och butiker.

Fram till före 1923 bodde mestadels kristna i Kayaköy. År 1923 undertecknades ett befolkningsutbytesavtal mellan Turkiet och Grekland, och den kristna befolkningen tvingades flytta till Grekland. Kayaköy, en av de mest smärtsamma vittnena till befolkningsutbytet i västra Anatolien, är en av symbolerna för utbytet.

Belägen på en sluttning är Kayaköy en plats där tiden har frusit med sina stenbelagda gator täckta av ogräs, övergivna ruinerade hus och byggnader.

Bakom den högsta punkten i Kayaköy, som hette Levissi före befolkningsutbytet, finns en magnifik utsikt över Medelhavet och Ölüdeniz. Byn, vars historia går tillbaka till 1300-talet, var en bosättning där anatoliska muslimer och grekisk-ortodoxa kristna levde tillsammans i harmoni fram till utbytet.

De grekiska kvinnorna i byn bar stenarna i kyrkans gård från havet i sina kjolar. Bybor som kom på besök år senare ångrade sig när de såg att stenarna i kyrkans trädgård hade tagits bort.

Medan kristna ägnade sig åt hantverk i den övre delen av sluttningen, levde muslimer i de lägre delarna av dalen på jordbruk och boskapsskötsel. Levissi döptes om till Kayaköy när 6 500 kristna som bodde i Kayaköy emigrerade till Grekland med utbytesavtalet som undertecknades strax efter självständighetskriget.

Efter befolkningsutbytet fann muslimer som kom från Grekland till Turkiet inte Kayaköy lämpligt för jordbruk, och folk slutade bosätta sig i denna by. Med den stora jordbävningen i Fethiye 1957 skadades de flesta av byns hus, och byn blev helt tyst.

Det finns två skolor i Kayaköy där undervisning ges på grekiska. Det finns många kapell och två stora kyrkor mellan husen för att möta bybornas gudstjänstbehov. Den nedre kyrkan (Panayia Pirgiotissa), som ligger väster om Kayaköy, användes som moské fram till 1960-talet.

Omgiven av höga murar ligger den rosa putsade övre kyrkan (Taksiyarhis-kyrkan) i mitten av byn, på en kulle som dominerar överallt. Du kan fotografera byn vackrast härifrån. Vackra bildramar kommer fram vid soluppgången på morgonen och solnedgången på kvällen.


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