Yeşilhisar is a village in the
Hocalar District
Hocalar District is a Districts of Turkey, district of Afyonkarahisar Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Hocalar. ,
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 southea ...
,
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. Its population is 1,514 (2021). Before the
2013 reorganisation, it was 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 ...
''). The postal code for the village is 03580.
Geography
Yeşilhisar is located on the southwest flank of the Ahır Dağ, 84 km south of
Kütahya.
The village is located at the western end of the Karahisar Plain and has a continental climate, hot and dry summers, cold and snowy winters. Rainfall is generally sparse.
The economy is mainly agriculture accounting for about 60% to 75% of the population with crops including Apples, apricots and Sugar beet and potato are the most important industrial plants.
History
The ancient city of
Dioclea ( gr, Διόκλεια Φρυγίας) was located near modern Yeşilhisar (formerly called ''Ahırhisar''), while some assume that it was located near modern
Doğlat.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Dioclea
/ref> Traces of the ancient settlement at Yeşilhisar include a few old inscriptions and a capital dated to the early Byzantine period.
References
Villages in Hocalar District
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