Karaman Province ( tr, ) is a

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

of south-central

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. It has an area of . A 2010 estimate puts the population at 232,633 people. According to the 2000 census, the population was 243,210. The population density is 27.54 people/km. The

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is 70. The capital is the city of

Karaman Karaman, historically known as Laranda (Greek: Λάρανδα), is a city in south central Turkey, located in Central Anatolia, north of the Taurus Mountains, about south of Konya. It is the capital district of the Karaman Province. According t ...

. Karaman was the location of the

Karamanid The Karamanids ( tr, Karamanoğulları or ), also known as the Emirate of Karaman and Beylik of Karaman ( tr, Karamanoğulları Beyliği), was one of the Anatolian beyliks, centered in South-Central Anatolia around the present-day Karaman Pro ...

Bey Bey ( ota, بك, beğ, script=Arab, tr, bey, az, bəy, tk, beg, uz, бек, kz, би/бек, tt-Cyrl, бәк, translit=bäk, cjs, пий/пек, sq, beu/bej, sh, beg, fa, بیگ, beyg/, tg, бек, ar, بك, bak, gr, μπέης) is ...

lik, which came to an end in 1486.

Districts and Towns

Karaman Province is divided into 6

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

Ayrancı Ayrancı is a town and district of Karaman Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 13,212 of which 3,153 live in the town of Ayrancı. History The town of Ayrancı was among the ...

, Başyayla,

Ermenek Ermenek is a town and district of Karaman Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. As ancient Germanicopolis (in Isauria; has namesakes), a former bishopric, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see. The district forms the core of the plate ...

, Kazımkarabekir, Sarıveliler, and the capital,

. Towns include Yeşildere, Sudurağı, Akçaşehir, and Taşkale.

Place of interest

Binbirkilise Binbirkilise (literally: Thousand and One Churches) is a region in the antique Lycaonia, in modern Karaman Province of Turkey, known for its around fifty Byzantine church ruins. The region is located on the northern slopes of the volcano Kara ...

, a region around Mount Karadağ north of Karaman with

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

church ruins.

Gallery

File:Karaman Karadağ in distance 2242.jpg, Mount Karadağ seen from Karaman File:Karaman street scene 4761.jpg, Street in Karaman File:Taseli-Plateau 12 08 1999 Oberer Ermenek Cayi - Gevne Cayi.jpg, Taşeli-Plateau, Ermenek River File:Yeşildere 05 2011 alte Brücke Taşköprü (Akköprü).jpg, Yeşildere, Akköprü File:Ermenek 5088.jpg,

old houses File:Binbirkilise1.jpg, Ruins of

, meaning "Thousand and One Churches" in Üçkuyu File:70400 Yaylapazarı-Ermenek-Karaman, Turkey - panoramio (4).jpg, Yaylapazarı,

Image:Kahve1.jpg, Görmeli, a village in

district Image:Andıkara_neighbourhood_of_Akpınar_village,_Ayrancı,_Karaman.jpg, Akpınar village in Ayrancı district File:Dod.jpg, View of Ala Bridge near

File:Ermenek + Ermenek Barajı (Stausee) Blick nach Süd.jpg, Ermenek Dam File:Taşkale 05 2011 Ortsbild.jpg, Houses in Taşkale File:Taşkale 09 2010 Speicherhöhlen.jpg, Storage caves of Taşkale are probably of ancient origin, but some may have been dug into the rock face in the post-Byzantine period.

Districts and Towns

Place of interest

See also

Gallery

References

External links

See also