• Zelve Açık Hava Müzesi

    ZELVE RULEEZZZZ

    Zelve means; Lock piece of a yoke.
    Since the Zelve Open Air Museum has three valleys like 2 oxes and 1 yoke with the lock, people believes that the name derived from this word.

    As you can see in this picture.
    Öküz Zelvesi

    I know that's quite difficult to imagine or visualize but when you see with your eyes you are going to understand what I mean.



    When you look Zelve in historical point of view, you can see the village inhabitted by people effectively during the Christianity. Especially, during 9th to 13th centuries.

    In these three valleys, Turkish and Greeks were lived altogether for ages. However during the Exchange1 of Turkey and Greece which happened between the years of 1924 to 1927 the villages'population drop down dramatically. Turkish people kept living inside of these valley until 1950. The reason of peoples' moving out, from the old village to the new one was, rocks started to dislocate and fall down. It was quite dangerous times, so people didn't have any other choice than to evacuate.


    When evacuation confirmed, the village moved out to 2 km. away to a brand new village called Aktepe Village. Afterwards, restoration started in former Zelve and became a museum later on.


    1 About the Exchange soon I am going to write an article. I'll inform you about it.


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