Koçhisar is a village in the

Sandıklı District Sandıklı District is a district of Afyonkarahisar Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Sandıklı.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 ...

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 ...

. Its population is 527 (2021).

History

Ancient

Hierapolis Hierapolis (; grc, Ἱεράπολις, lit. "Holy City") was originally a Phrygian cult centre of the Anatolian mother goddess of Cybele and later a Greek city. Its location was centred upon the remarkable and copious hot springs in classica ...

( grc, Ἱεράπολις) was part of the

Phrygian Pentapolis The Phrygian Pentapolis was an area of five cities (Greek ''pentapolis'', "five cities") in ancient Phrygia, now in Turkey. The five cities were: Eucarpia, Hierapolis, Otrus, Bruzus, and Stectorium Stectorium or Stektorion ( grc, Στεκτόρι� ...

and remained under that name during the Byzantine period.

References

Villages in Sandıklı District {{Afyonkarahisar-geo-stub