Güney

Yeşilova · Burdur · Türkiye

Güney

A mountain village of stone houses and open fields, a short drive from Lake Salda.

Altitude
1,276 m
Population
1,033 (2022)
To Yeşilova
22 km
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Red-tiled rooftops of Güney seen from a wooden balcony, with green fields and mountains behind
Rooftops of Güney, looking out over the plain.

A village getting quieter

In 1985, 3,678 people lived in Güney. In 2022, 1,033 did. When people leave, houses close and memories leave with them.

Güney was a town with its own municipality from 1968 until 2013, when the population fell below 2,000.

This page is a small door back in, for anyone who is from here or would like to be.

Population of Güney, 1960–2022

1k2k3k4k2,07419603,67819851,0332022
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YearPeople
19602,074
19702,218
19803,672
19853,678
19903,097
20002,638
20101,763
20221,033
Source: Turkish census figures, via Wikipedia.

From the archive

Records from 1919 list the village as Günü. Some of what it was is still here. Some survives only in photographs.

Old black-and-white photograph of village men in caps talking around a table in the coffeehouse
The village coffeehouse, decades ago.
A large carved stone mortar with a wooden pestle resting in it, on grass
A dibek taşı: a stone mortar for pounding wheat by hand.

Have old photos or stories? Send them and they will be kept for the village.

Three ways in

Share a memory

Old photos, family names, stories from the coffeehouse. One picture is enough to start.

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Offer a hand

A skill, some time, or a house you would like to see lived in again. One line is enough.

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Every message goes to hello@guney.live

Getting here

Yeşilova, district centre
22 km
Burdur, provincial centre
80 km
Lake Salda, by car
≈ 25 min
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Distances from Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap.