History Of Alaçatı
TTo the best of our knowledge Alacati’s record goes back 1850.At the time,The Ottomans brought workers from the Greek Islands to dry the marshess that had been the source of Malaria.Making use of land given by the local Turks,these Greek workers established vineyards,developed the winemaking profession and choose not to return to the Islands.They later established a grape processing facility and winery at the Alacati Harbor began exporting raisins and wine.In 1914,a number of those fleeing from the Balkan War came to Alacati.As the story goes,when the Greeks in the region saw the ship carrying these immigrants in the Alacati Harbor,they immediately fled to Chios Island accross from Cesme in small boats,some even leaving their loaded carts on the road.Immegrants from Thessaloniki,Bosnia and Albania arrived during thr population exchange of 1924.Because the newly arrived immegrants knew nothing about vineyards agriculture,they established tobacco plantations and began to breed animals.In time,the wineyards dissappeared.The tobacco industry also dissappeared after 1980.In fact,agriculture is hardly evident in the Alacati area today.In any case,today throughout the world,the mastic tree is only grown on Chios Island and in Alacati
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