{{About|the town}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox Turkey place | type = metro district | name = Buldan | image_skyline = Buldan1.jpg | image_caption = | image_map = Denizli location Buldan.png | map_caption = Map showing Buldan District in Denizli Province | coordinates = {{coord|38|2|42|N|28|49|50|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | province = Denizli | leader_party = CHP | leader_name = Mehmet Ali Orpak | leader_name1 = | area_total_km2 = 523 | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = <ref name=tuik/> | population_total = 26630 | population_as_of = 2022 | postal_code = 20400 | area_code = 0258 | website = {{url|http://www.buldan.bel.tr/}} }} '''Buldan''' is a municipality and district of Denizli Province, Turkey.<ref>[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.</ref> Its area is 523 km<sup>2</sup>,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.harita.gov.tr/uploads/files-folder/il_ilce_alanlari.xlsx|title=İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri|publisher=General Directorate of Mapping|access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref> and its population is 26,630 (2022).<ref name=tuik/> Buldan district area neighbors to the east and the south three other districts of the same province, namely Güney, Pamukkale and Sarayköy, and to the west by the areas of three districts of Aydın Province, Buharkent, Kuyucak and Karacasu, and to the northwest by Sarıgöl district of Manisa Province.
The town of Buldan is located at a distance of {{convert|46|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} from the province seat of Denizli and lies at an altitude of 690 meters. It extends along a pretty hilltop area, with hillsides covered with pomegranates, figs, vines and blackberries. There are lovely views from the high meadows. Kestane Deresi (Chestnut Stream) is a favourite popular excursion spot situated in the upper parts of the main town.
Buldan's depending township of Yenicekent is the site of ancient Tripolis of Phrygia.
==Buldan cloth production== thumb|Clothing made out of Buldan cloth Historically, the town has been a very important center of Turkey's textile industry, a tradition it actively pursues to this day, still largely based on independent craftspersons.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}
Sanjak (''subprovince'') of Denizli was the most vibrant center cloth production center in western Anatolia during the later 19th century and the fame of the region rested at the time on the output of two of depending large villages, Buldan and Kadıköy, as well as the neighboring town of Babadağ.
Buldan was famed for a thin handwoven cheesecloth-type fabric, with laced edges and used chiefly for bed covers and table cloths, called as "Buldan bezi" (''Buldan clothes'') under the name of locality. Already back in the 19th century, the townspeople wove 40,000 pieces of all-cotton colored striped cloth used called ''alaca'' used for attires and a similar number of cotton and mattress clothes. Buldan weavers also produced over one-half million handkerchiefs and a large number of cotton curtains. Another textile from Buldan that deserves mention is a vivid violet silk (''peştemal'') woven as a rectangular panel to be wrapped around the body. Yet another is ''kaplama'', colorful head coverings typical of Turkey's Aegean Region and worn by men and women alike with different colors associated with each gender and various regions. Thanks to sizable production effort, the number of looms in Buldan had risen to 1,500 by the end of the 19th century.
The town's expertise reaches further back in time and a sign at the town entry greets visitors with the pride expressed for having woven the kaftan of Beyazid I the Thunderbolt for his marriage with Hafsa Hatun, daughter of Aydinid İsa Bey, in 1390. Tripolis (Phrygia) itself, a first-century AD Roman foundation, may have had the weaving industry as its reason for coming into existence.
17th century Ottoman documents also mention Buldan's importance as a textile production center, informing that until circa 1650s, the cotton cloth woven in Buldan, Denizli and Manisa was taken to Tire for dyeing, after which time that part of the operation also started to be handled locally.<ref>{{cite book | title = Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution | url = https://archive.org/details/ottomanmanufactu0000quat | url-access = registration |pages= [https://archive.org/details/ottomanmanufactu0000quat/page/86 86–99] |ISBN=0-521-89301-1|author= Donald Quataert|publisher=Cambridge University| year= 1993|display-authors=etal}}</ref> thumb|Süleymanlı Plateau near Buldan
==Population history== Buldan's population has grown slowly since 1955. The population of the municipality of Buldan is shown below, in its geography at the years given. Note that the municipality of Buldan was expanded to cover the whole Buldan District in 2013.
{{Historical populations |align = none |percentages = pagr |cols=2 |source = Population censuses (1955-1997)<ref name="TÜİK1955">{{Cite web | url = https://kutuphane.tuik.gov.tr/pdf/0015096.pdf | title = 1955 General Census | date = 1955 | publisher = Turkish Statistical Institute | language = Turkish | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210826165632/https://kutuphane.tuik.gov.tr/pdf/0015096.pdf | archive-date = 26 August 2021 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="AhmetGÜNAY">{{cite web |author1=Prof. Dr. Ahmet GÜNAY |title=Su Temini Sistemlerinin Tasarımı |url=http://cevre.balikesir.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/01_Prof-Dr-Ahmet-G%C3%9CNAY-Su-Tem-Sis-Tas-G%C4%B0R%C4%B0%C5%9E.pdf |language=tr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044706/http://cevre.balikesir.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/01_Prof-Dr-Ahmet-G%C3%9CNAY-Su-Tem-Sis-Tas-G%C4%B0R%C4%B0%C5%9E.pdf|archive-date=6 March 2019|page=11}}</ref> and TÜIK (2007-2022)<ref name=tuik>{{cite web|url=https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/medas/?kn=95&locale=en |title=Population Of Municipalities, Villages And Quarters|publisher=TÜIK |access-date=24 March 2023}}</ref> |1955|10241 |1960|10496 |1965|9813 |1970|10076 |1975|11115 |1980|10939 |1985|11681 |1990|12202 |1997|12900 |2007|15066 |2012|15914 |2013|27558 |2017|27248 |2022|26630 }}
==Composition== There are 45 neighbourhoods in Buldan District:<ref>[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.</ref> {{div col|colwidth=12em}} * 4 Eylül * Aktaş * Alacaoğlu * Alandız * Beyler * Boğazçiftlik * Bölmekaya * Bostanyeri * Bozalan * Bursa * Çamköy * Çarşı * Çatak * Çaybaşı * Cumhuriyet * Derbent * Dımbazlar * Doğan * Düzalan * Girne * Gölbaşı * Gülalan * Güroluk * Hasanbeyler * Helvacılar * Kadıköy * Karaköy * Karşıyaka * Kaşıkçı * Kırandamı * Kovanoluk * Kurtuluş * Kurudere * Mahmutlu * Oğuz * Sarımahmutlu * Süleymanlı * Turan * Türlübey * Yalçınkaya * Yayla * Yeni * Yeniçam * Yenicekent * Yeşildere {{div col end}}
==See also== * Tripolis of Phrygia
==References== {{Commons category|Buldan}} {{reflist}}
==Sources== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book | title = The Fabric of Life: Cultural Transformations In Turkish Society |ISBN=978-1-58684-256-7 |editor= Ronald T. Marchese|publisher=Global Academic Publishing, Binghamton University| year= 2005}} {{refend}}
{{Districts of Turkey|provname=Denizli}} {{Buldan District}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Buldan Category:Populated places in Denizli Province Category:Districts of Denizli Province Category:Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey