History
İskenderiye train station and the Sudanese in Dalaman
In 1906, İskenderiye train station was built by mistake in Dalaman. The building still exists and serves today as the headquarters of the state farm.The year before the construction (in 1905) the then Khedive of Egypt Abbas Hilmi Pasha had acquired a large part of the fertile plain and had decided to set up a plantation in the region. He had ordered the plans and the material for his projected residence here to his architects in France at the same as the plans and the material for a train station for İskenderiye in Egytp. Unfortunately, the two simultaneous ship ments were mis directed, the materials for his residence heading to wards Egypt, and the İskenderiye train station ending up in Dalaman. Since it was going to be too costly to re-ship everything to the right destination, the station was built in Dalaman anyway, with even a few miles of purposeless railway track.
The Khedive is also the perpetrator of the settlement in Dalaman of Afro-Turks of Sudanese origin, whose descendants are still easily distinguishable among the population