Karaman District
Karaman District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central" in Turkish) is a district of the Karaman Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Karaman.Karaman Province, Turkey. Its population is 548 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town ('' belde''). It is situated to the west of the Karadağ Mountain. The distance to Karaman is . The name of the town means "poor" in older Turkish, because the earliest inhabitants were nomads. The town was founded as a result of an operation of the Ottoman Empire government to settle the nomadic tribes in 1887. The government settled the
Turkmen
Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to:
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* Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages
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* Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...
tribe named Sarıkeçili in the Kisecik. In 1991 the settlement was declared a seat of township. The main crops of the town are cereals, legume and sugarbeet.