Mursallı, Germencik

Mursallı
Town
Mursallı Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 37°51′N 27°34′E / 37.850°N 27.567°E / 37.850; 27.567Coordinates: 37°51′N 27°34′E / 37.850°N 27.567°E / 37.850; 27.567
Country	Turkey
Province	Aydın Province
District	Germencik
Elevation	72 m (235 ft)
Population (2012)
• Total	1,144
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	09720
Area code(s)	256
Licence plate	09

Mursallı is a town in Germencik district of Aydın Province, Turkey. At 37°51′N 27°34′E / 37.850°N 27.567°E / 37.850; 27.567 it is situated to the south of Motorway which connects Aydın to İzmir. It is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) to Germencik and 30 kilometres (19 mi) to Aydın. The population of the town was 1144^[1] as of 2012. According to town page the name of the town refers to two brothers named Musa and Ali who founded the settlement during the Ottoman Empire era. Later Greeks also settled in the village. After the Population exchange agreement between Turkey and Greece, the Greeks left the village for Euboea island in the Aegean Sea and they named their new village as Neo Mursallı. (Recently the village in Euboea was renamed as Taxiarches referring to the name of the church in Mursallı.) According to the agreement Turkish families from Grevena in Greece were settled in Mursallı. There are also some Turkish families from Albania in Mursallı. In 1957 Mursallı was declared a seat of township.^[2]

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