Geographically village names of the River Basin of Küçük Menderes

The main purpose of there search which isthevillagenames of the River Basin of Küçük Menderes is tostate geograhical class where the names camefrom and why it wasnamedso in thevillages of Küçük Menderes River Basin in Aegean Regionwhich has been a research subjectin both geografhy of human, naturalan deconomi caland many differentareas. Theresearchlimits of thefieldsarelimitea with 278 village settlements which is stated in thewaterpartion of Küçük Menderes River in topographicmapthat is publishedby General Command of Mapping in theyear 2007 with 1/250.000 scale, named NJ 35-7 and NJ 35-11. Thesesettlementsare 47 villages of Tire, 38 villages of Torbalı, 75 villages of Ödemiş, 37 villages of Kiraz, 21 villages of Beydağ, 39 villages of Bayındır, 5 villages of Selçuk, 6villages of Menderes, 5 villages of Kemalpaşa which are town of İzmir Province in administrative aspect, and 5 villages of Turgutlu which is town of Manisa Province. While village settlements werebeing determined, it was triedtoexplain the village settlements which were beforethelaw change which is the12.11.2012 dateand 6360 number.Maximum villagenumber is in thehead of family-clanbecause of ther ichhistory of thefield in classifıcation. As the name of theresearchsuggests, we evaulated the village names byconsidering the geographicalpoint. Theroof of the village nameswasn'texplainedmuch as it is moreappropriateto be doneby the head of department. Key Words: Geography, Küçük Menderes River, Village, Toponymy, Place Names.