Women of the Village Çomakdağı

Muğla, is a city in south-western Turkey. It is the center of the district the same name, as well as of Muğla Province, which stretches along Turkey's Aegean coast. Muğla center is situated inland at an altitude of 660 m and lies at a distance of about 30 km (19 miles) from the nearest seacoast in the Gulf of Gökova to its south-west. Muğla district area neighbors the district areas of Milas, Yatağan, and Kavaklıdere to its north by north-west and those of Ula and Köyceğiz, all of whom are depending districts. Muğla is the administrative capital of a province that incorporates internationally well-known and popular tourist resorts such as Bodrum, Marmaris and Fethiye (Ölü Deniz/Death Sea).

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These villager women in the pictures, who live in the district of Muğla, Milas Çomakdağı Köyü (Çomakdağı Village) nearly 500-year history to live with their traditions and customs in daily life wearing silk clothes, gold jewelry wear. 40 degrees even in summer heat from head to toe in layers of fabric do not remove clothing. Hand-woven clothing and head wear to the center of attention of visitors to their village with flowers that women, 4-5 days, adds color to the local wedding. To transfer their culture to future generations of women who struggle with their own hands to touch, paint the costs of the wedding dress to find the 2 thousand liras.

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Inherited from ancestors to their traditions and customs they are trying to live by expressing, "This is to maintain the culture in our village are more women involved. In addition to our clothes, wearing on our heads we have the meaning of flowers."

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Color of the street:

As the villages of İkiztaş, Ketendere, and traditional architecture and unique culture of Alder village ... until today to be protected villages of this area ... Green, purple, blue painted wooden cut stone decorated houses, colorful women's clothes and riot is notorious with the wedding to the whichever village you visit , you can find the same view: in the morning sun, from the wood windows embracing smiling young girls, women, with their colorful embroideries clothes. Bird and flower figures fascinate. With red, blue, and the revival cast of green patterns are likely a real flowers garden. The women of the village, Çomakdağ, as if they carry their own skills on them. From up to cap an astonishing wearing they have. But now instead of silk they preferr cotton fabric in their clothes. To the unique culture of the Aegean region for centuries lived in villages which were made of carved stone doors, cornices and chimneys of houses with amazing views of places between the houses has been made in concrete or distorts the general atmosphere is still original. Wood doors, moldings, ceiling heart, kitchen niches, cumba (oriel windows), eaves, and garden fences, they look like a wonderful rainbow colors as a painting...