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'''Buca''' is a district of [[İzmir Province]] of [[Turkey]]. It is one of the metropolitan districts of Greater [[İzmir]].
Buca was one of the preferred settlement areas of İzmir's community of [[Levantines]]. The great mansions they built in the 19th century stand to this day, most of them restored.
The district center is situated slightly inland like the district of [[Bornova]] with which it shares important points in common, and on the higher ground that commands the southern shores of the tip of the [[Gulf of İzmir]]. Buca started to develop as of the end of the 17th century when the [[France|French]] consulate in İzmir moved there following the 1676 plague and the 1688 earthquake that seriously shook İzmir's core as an international trade center. Its rich Levantine residents who acquired the surrounding [[vineyards]] typically had [[Latin]] backgrounds, as opposed to those who originally came from [[Great Britain|Britain]] and who preferred Bornova. But in the case both of Bornova and of Buca, the concentration in terms of ethnic backgrounds was far from having an exclusive nature.
Many of the 19th century houses have been restored and are still being used either by public institutions or by private persons, although many still need care. There is a [[Catholic]] and a [[Baptist]] church in service. The core area of Buca could preserve its traditional architectural tissue based on cosy two-storey residences, while apartment blocks mushroomed in its extensions, as it is the case in all localities in Turkey which had to absorb immigration. There are a number of beautiful municipal parks, notably a vast ongoing project that comprises seven artificial lakes.
[[Dokuz Eylül University]], one of the two larger universities in İzmir, has its newly-built main campus located in Buca, in the locality called Tınaztepe. While the university has dependencies scattered all over İzmir, it is largely associated with Buca, in the same way as the other large university, [[Ege University]], is associated with Bornova.
The [[hippodrome]] of İzmir is located in Buca, in the quarter named Şirinyer along the road to İzmir metropolitan center, and the hippodrome is known under the name of this quarter (as ''Şirinyer Hipodromu''). Şirinyer area used to be called Kızılçullu, in reference to a legend according to which [[Tamerlane]] would have established his headquarters here during his 1402 siege of İzmir (''"Kızılçullu" meaning "red horseclothes"''), and Buca's Levantine population, who owned orchards and vineyards here, had named the area under the no less assumptive name of Paradiso.
[[Çevik Bir]], the retired Turkish general who was the force commander of during the [[United Nations]]' [[Operation Restore Hope]] in [[Somalia]] and an influential figure in Turkey's politics and diplomacy in the 1990s, is from Buca and a public square is named after him.
==See also==
* [[Levantine mansions of İzmir]]
* [[Dokuz Eylül University]]
* [[Cemil Şeboy]]
http://www.bucaortami.com is the most popular local portal of Buca
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Faik Sarikaya BUCA SIRINYER HIPODROMU 3.jpg|[[Hippodrome]] of İzmir in Şirinyer, Buca
Image:Buca evleri1.jpg|19th century [[Levantines|Levantine]] house in Buca
Image:Buca evleri14.jpg|Buca street with old houses
Image:Bucaevleri.jpg|Easygoing lifestyle in Buca
</gallery>
==External links==
* [http://www.izmir.bel.tr Metropolitan Municipality of Greater İzmir]
* [http://www.deu.edu.tr Dokuz Eylül University]
* [http://www.deusozluk.com Dokuz Eylül University Dictionary]
* [http://www.deuforum.com Dokuz Eylül University Forum]
* [http://www.tjk.org/S/Netice/Netice.aspx?l=1 Şirinyer Hippodrome page of Turkish Jockey Club] {{tr}}
* [http://www.bucaortami.com Local News Portal]
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