Gemlik is the olive variety, from the Deluxe Villa Oliveto Premium Olive Oil is produced. Other names are for Gemlik are Triliye, Kaplık, Kıvırcık and Kara. The Gemlik olives are used as table olives as well as the oil. With proper care, regular yield can be achieved. The medium sized fruit is partially resistant to cold.
The main growing areas are the Aegean and the provinces Antalya, Tekirdağ and Adana.

The naming of the port town of Gemlik - near Bursa at the Sea of Marmara in Turkey with about 80,000 inhabitants - is also under the Gemlik olives.

The history of the city begins 630 BC. The name of Kios (Greek Kίος or Kείος Keios, Latin Cius) is already mentioned in the saga of the Argonauts and by Strabo. Herakles stranded there, Aristotle, praised the laws of Kios (Kionion Politea). In times of silk road Kios was one of the richest cities on the Mediterranean, as close to the modern free port of Gemlik the end of the trade route to China was.
Gemlik today has a large industrial container port, named Gemlik Port, with a free trade zone BUSEB. In Bursa and Adapazarı produced cars are shipped from here.