Altinoluk; Balıkesir is a town connected to Edremit district. On the Edremit-Çanakkale highway, 25 km from Edremit. away. There are Kazdağları (Ida) in the north and the Aegean Sea (Edremit Bay) in the south. In mitology, the Aegean shores between Troy and Dikili are called the “Coast of Lights”. Altinoluk; It is a resort of beauty, on the shore of the coast of Lights, at the foot of the legendary Ida Mountain, where lush sacred olive trees flow as if they were in love with the deep blue Aegean. It has a green nature for 365 days, which offers the world’s most intense oxygen to humanity after the Swiss Alps. Spring waters coming from Kaz Mountain with a thousand springs flow healthy and clean from its fountains.

The old village settlement of Altınoluk, which has “Historical Accumulations” in addition to its natural beauties and perhaps more importantly, is located on the hill, in the north of the city. Until 1927, the first data belonging to the village, which was called as “Priesthood”, are from the 16th century. It goes back to the early census held in the early years of Suleiman the Magnificent’s (1520-1566) reign. Based on this, we can say that the establishment of Papazlık goes back over 450 years. The first inhabitants of the village are the nomads of Söğütlü, which the Ottoman State registered as a derbent and placed in the Papazlık by providing tax protection.
Greek settlement; It was formed when the Greeks brought from the island of Lesbos from Greece to work in the 1820s, increased and settled here over time. The Greeks also built a church for their worship. It is known that Turkish settlement at that time consisted of families called Hıdırlar, Kadirler and Sakar.