Manisa

Manisa
Metropolitan municipality
Top to bottom, left to right: Manisa Bird Paradise; Muradiye Mosque; Cumhuriyet Square and Park; Government House; Manisa Museum; Merkez Efendi Park Mosque; view of Mount Spil
Emblem of Manisa Metropolitan Municipality
Manisa Location within Turkey Manisa Location within Europe
Coordinates: 38°36′52″N 27°25′45″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Manisa
Government
• Mayor	Besim Dutlulu (CHP)
Elevation	71 m (233 ft)
Population  (2022)
• City	385,452
• Rank	15th in Turkey 24th (Agglomeration)
• Urban	425,000
• Metro (Metro municipality)	1,490,486
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Website	www.manisa.bel.tr

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Stone factory in Manisa

Manisa (Turkish pronunciation: [maˈnisa]) is a city in Turkey and the administrative seat of Manisa Province, lying approximately 40 km northeast of the major city of İzmir. The city forms the urban part of the districts Şehzadeler and Yunusemre, with a population of 385,452 in 2022.

Modern Manisa is a center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port city and the regional metropolitan center of İzmir and by its hinterland rich in quantity and variety of agricultural production. İzmir's proximity also adds dense traffic of daily commuters between the two cities, separated by a half-hour drive served by a six-lane highway across Mount Sipylus's mythic scenery.

The historic part of Manisa spreads out from a forested valley in the immediate slopes of Sipylus mountainside, along Çaybaşı Stream which flows next to Niobe's "Weeping Rock" ("Ağlayan Kaya"), an ancient bridge called the "Red Bridge" ("Kırmızı Köprü") as well as to several tombs-shrines in the Turkish style dating back to the Saruhan period (14th century). Under Ottoman rule in the centuries that followed, the city had already extended into the undulated terrain at the start of the plain. In the last couple of decades, Manisa's width more than tripled in size across its vast plain formed by the alluvial deposits of the River Gediz, a development in which the construction of new block apartments, industrial zones and of Celal Bayar University campus played a key role.

The city of Manisa is also widely visited, especially during March and September festivals, the former festival being the continuation of a five-hundred-year-old "Mesir Paste Distribution" tradition, and also for the nearby Mount Spil national park. It is also a departure point for other visitor attractions of international acclaim which are located nearby within Manisa's depending region, such as Sardes and Alaşehir (ancient Philadelphia) inland. The city also had a Jewish community.