Kayıhan is a town (''

belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the villages (and also subdistricts) are usually too small to have ...

'') and municipality in the

İhsaniye District İhsaniye District is a district of Afyonkarahisar Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town İhsaniye.Afyonkarahisar Province Afyonkarahisar Province ( tr, ), also called more simply Afyon Province, is a province in western Turkey. Adjacent provinces are Kütahya to the northwest, Uşak to the west, Denizli to the southwest, Burdur to the south, Isparta to the sout ...

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. Its population is 2,118 (2021). The Kayıhan municipality was created in 1989 by the consolidation of the villages of Tekke, Garen, and Kunduzlu. Kayıhan's current

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s include Pınar, Cumhuriyet, Türbe, and Kunduzlu. Adjacent to Kayıhan's Hayran Veli Mosque is the tomb of Hayran Veli Sultan, said to be a folk healer from

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. Near Kayıhan are various ruins of the Göynüş Valley (the "Phrygian Valley") such as the Aslantaş ("lion stone"). The name "Kayıhan" is said to come from the

Kayı tribe Kayı can refer to: * Kayı (tribe) The Kayı or Kayi tribe (Middle Turkic: قَيِغْ ''qayïγ'' or simply ''qayig''; tr, Kayı boyu, tk, Gaýy taýpasy) were an Oghuz Turkic people and a sub-branch of the Bozok tribal federation. In hi ...

to which

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belonged. The settlement was also formerly known as "Kaya-Viran" (rock ruin), after being destroyed in an earthquake. The 1940 population of Kayaviran is listed as 656 (318 women, 338 men). The 1945 populatıon of Kayaviran is listed as 640 (322 women, 318 men). The 1960 populatıon of Kayaviran is listed as 850 (445 women, 405 men). The 2011 population of Kayıhan is listed as 2266 (1147 women, 1119 men). The 2012 population of Kayıhan is listed as 2201.

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Populated places in Afyonkarahisar Province Towns in Turkey İhsaniye District {{Afyonkarahisar-geo-stub