پاموق قلعه

Ottoman Turkish

Pamukkale district

Etymology

From پاموق (pamuk, “cotton”) + قلعه (kalʼe, “fortress”), in reference to the snow-white surface of the limestone shaped by the local springs.

Proper noun

پاموق قلعه • (pamuk kalʼe)

1. Pamukkale (a town and district in Denizli province, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Pamukkale

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Pamukkale”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Pamukkale”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 605