Antalya Turkey

Kumluca

Kumluca is a paradise in the south of Turkey and a beautiful locality of "Antalya Turkey", is very new. However, we understand today, because of the excavations and continues, that allotments of tribes and states have located in this fertile locality before Turks. It is renowned that this locality was taken by the Sultan Suleyman in the time span of Anatolian Seljuks. Nevertheless, we rendezvous no any remnants from that time span round Kumluca today. After Monghols had conquered Anatolia, the Beyliks time span started. Tekeliogullary Beylik, one of the parts of Hamitogullary Beylik, overridden this area. After that in the time span of Bayezyd this district became under the direct of the Ottoman Empire.
During all these time span there were no any permenant settlements. Nomad Turks expended distinct times of the year in distinct regions; particularly in the summer time of the year in the flat lands of Elmaly and Korkuteli, in the after summer time of the year round Kuzca and in the winter they turned Kumluca again. At that time, this locality was entitled Gardyc.
The very first town in the fertile simple, where the town center lies nowadays, was located about 5 km east, in the evade of the high grounds, because of the marsh, renowned Sarykavak in 1830.
After "Antalya" had been made a province in 1914, a new guideline for the management of the locality was started. According to this guideline Gardyc was divided as Kemer and Kumluca. So Kumluca became a locality of Finike. In times, nomads resolved in the town center of Kumluca and Kumluca was acknowledged by regulation as a village in 1958.
Pre-history of Kumluca

The locality has been relentlessly inhabited by numerous civilizations since the very early history. Among these Lykia, Phonecians, Roman Empire are renowned to have successively resolved in this area.
The Source of the title ‘Kumluca’ Antalya Turkey

According to a article, when there was no town today’s town center a villager from Sarykavak sown water melon in the area enclosed with sands. The water melons increased very big. When the man conveyed and traded these water melons in another villages, the persons inquired him where he had sown these. He answered that he had sown these water melons in a area enclosed with sands beside the little river. By the good status of the water melons, this locality step-by-step was entitled after the title of the sown area “Kumluca”.

In the past being well renowned with water melons Kumluca nowadays has greenhouses to make vegetables by the help of up to designated day techniques. Kumluca encounters the desires of some very vital amount of vegetables in "Turkey"