Akhisar

Akhisar is a region area and its town focus in Manisa Province in the Aegean district of Western Turkey. Akhisar is likewise the antiquated city of Thyatira otherwise called Thyateira. With archeological discoveries that are demonstrating settlements returning to 3000 BC, Akhisar has been a bustling exchange focus with its vital area at the convergence of essential streets amid antiquated and medieval ages. Akhisar likewise facilitated one of the Seven places of worship of Asia: Thyateira, which is made reference to in the Bible. Akhisar kept up its significance as a local exchange focus amid the Ottoman time frame.

The present Akhisar is as yet the exchange and business focus in its area. Akhisar's name is globally connected with tobacco. The ripe Akhisar Plain delivers about 10% of aggregate Turkish tobacco generation. Akhisar's fantastic olives and olive oil are additionally all around known. The town was the most essential focus in antiquated North Lydia. Discoveries propose a possible prior time of pre-prominence under the Hittites. Persian control of the locale occurred around 500 BC. Thyateira was later vanquished by Alexander the Great. In later years, Thyateira was caught progressively by the Seleucid Empire, the Attalid tradition of Pergamon, and by Mithridates VI of Pontus, until the Roman Era that began in 80 BC.