Doğrugöz (formerly Eğrigöz) is a town in

Konya Province Konya Province ( tr, ), in southwest Central Anatolia, is the largest province of Turkey. The Province, provincial Capital (political), capital is the city of Konya. Its traffic code is 42. The Kızılören solar power plant in Konya will be ...

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Geography

The town at is a town in

Akşehir Akşehir is a town and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 114,918 of which 63,000 live in the town of Akşehir. The town is situated at the edge of a fertil ...

district, which itself is a part of Konya Province. It is at the east of Akşehir. It is situated between a mountain range and a partially dried up lake. It is about north east of

Sultan Mountains The Sultan Mountains ( tr, Sultandağ), also known as Sultan Dagh range or Sultan Dag, is a short mountain range on the western edge of the Anatolian Plateau, Turkey with highest elevation of . The town of Sultandağı is their namesake. They ar ...

and south of

Lake Akşehir Lake Akşehir ( tr, Akşehir Gölü) is a tectonic freshwater endorheic lake in Afyonkarahisar Province, Afyonkarahisar and Konya Province, Konya provinces, in the southwestern part of Turkey. It carries the same name as the town of Akşehir south ...

. The population is 4066 as of 2011.

History

The vicinity of the town was probably inhabited during the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...

era. Beginning by the Turkish domination in the 12th century, a

han Han may refer to: Ethnic groups * Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group. ** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...

(a type of caravanserai) was built in the present location of the town. First inhabitant of the town was a certain Ali Baba who was responsible in running the han. Soon a village was established. The earliest names of the village were Eğriöz and Eğrigöz. After the event of Cimri (attempted coup) in 1277 the population of the village increased by the newcomers. The village was declared township in 1959 and the town was renamed as Doğrugöz in 1980.

Economy

Most of the town's agricultural area is composed of fruit orchards. The most important crops are cherries and sour cherries.

References

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