Yenifoça

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Coordinates: 38°44′N 26°50′E / 38.733, 26.833
Yenifoça
Yenifoça general view
Location of Yenifoça within Turkey.
Country	Turkey
Region	Aegean
Province	İzmir
District	Foça
Population (2000)
- Total	3,742
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	35x xx
Area code(s)	0232
Licence plate	35
Website: Municipality Web site

Yenifoça is a town in Foça district, in Turkey's İzmir Province.

The town of Yenifoça is situated at about 80 km (50 mi) north by northwest of İzmir city center and a distance of 20 km (12 mi) from Foça proper. For this reason, Foça itself is locally often called as Eskifoça ("the old Foça") in daily parlance.

Yenifoça, taken over by the Genoese in 1275 and initially as a dowry, was the more active of the two Foças during the Middle Ages, due principally to the region's rich alum reserves, the Genoese lease over them having been preserved well into the Ottoman era.

Many parts of the district are under strict environmental protection, due to the value of the flora and the fauna, especially between Foça and Yenifoça. Therefore, a judicious way to get to know the district would be by boat tours regularly organized in partance of the center town. Because of the protective measures, new constructions are not permitted in many parts of the district and Foça is set to preserve its unique characteristic as composed principally of old houses.