The name comes from Datça stadiums, city name Cnidus. Stadiums developed Tady, Dady, Dadça, and then Datça.
They named both the city and Datça peninsula Resadiye, for a short period in the early 20th century, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the penultimate honor V Resad and some maps may refer to as the Peninsula under this name; Resadiye today is the name of one of the city's neighborhoods.
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