GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE NEIGHBORHOOD BASED DISTRIBUTION OF PEOPLE FROM EMIRDAG DISTRICT (CITY OF AFYONKARAHISAR) WHO LIVE IN CITY OF ESKISEHIR

This study aimed to determine the distribution of people who migrated to city from of Eskişehir from Afyonkarahisar's Emirdağ district which has emigrated to both within country and abroad for centuries. At first people from Emirdağ district have been tended to migrate from their homeland because of limited opportunities of the countryside. In the migrations of the later years, relationships of relative and immediate surroundings have been effective. As a the most developed city around Afyonkarahisar, Eskişehir was preferred thanks to both its large extent of site site and situation factors. In Eskişehir, factors such as relative relationships, business lines and proximity to homeland have been influential in the distribution of people from Emirdağ district. As a result, the city of Eskişehir has became a center of attraction for the its surrounding areas because of the rapid urbanization which has increased with industrialization. Today, people from Emirdağ district in Eskişehir who were influenced by the urbanization, are compromising the largest portion of population after natives of Eskişehir.