Yeşilova (former ''Acem'') 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

Aksaray District Aksaray District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a Districts of Turkey, district of Aksaray Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city Aksaray.Aksaray Province Aksaray Province ( tr, ) is a province in central Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Konya along the west and south, Niğde to the southeast, Nevşehir to the east, and Kırşehir to the north. It covers an area of . The provincial capital is t ...

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 3,917 (2021). At it is to Aksaray. The settlement was founded in 1517 by a small Turkmen clan from

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. Iran is also known as ''Acem'' and the settlement was named accordingly. The mound near the settlement was named as ''

Acemhöyük Acemhöyük is an archaeological site in Turkey. The tell is located near the village of Yeşilova in Merkez district, Aksaray Province. The Bronze Age name for the place was probably Purušḫanda/Purušḫattum or . The site was an Assyrian ...

'', which is now thought to be the tumulus of

Purushanda Purushanda (also variously Puruskhanda, Purushhattum or Burushattum) was an Anatolian kingdom of the early second millennium prior to the common era. It was conquered by the Hittites sometime between 1650–1556 BCE. Etymology The name is written ...

an ancient settlement. In 1928 Yeşilova was declared a township.

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Populated places in Aksaray District Towns in Turkey Populated places established in 1517 {{Aksaray-geo-stub