Şuhut ( Ottoman Turkish شهود ''Şuhūd'';Tahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları'', Ankara 2017, T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın No: 2
''s.v.'', p. 731
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Σύνναδα ''Synnada'') is an ''

ilçe The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...

'' (district) in

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 ...

in the Aegean region of Turkey, and also the capital of that district. It lies in a small plain, 29 km east of the city of

Afyon Afyonkarahisar (, tr, afyon "poppy, opium", ''kara'' "black", ''hisar'' "fortress") is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in the mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, south-west of Ankara along t ...

. It has an area of 983 km², and the population (2000) is 39,421 of which 12,625 live in the town of Şuhut, and the remainder in surrounding villages. The mayor is Recep Bozkurt ( AKP).

History

Excavations of a burial mound at Kepirtepe show the plain has been settled since the Neolithic period. The town was established during the Hittite period and grew under the

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, by then it was known as ''Synnada''. See Synnada for details on the area in antiquity and for the ecclesiastical history of the town in the

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period.

Today

Today Şuhut is a country town providing schools and other amenities to the surrounding rural area. Much of the land is used for raising beef cattle and growing wheat; Şuhut is famed for the quality of its meat and wheat stew, called

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. There is also a poultry industry and other crops, such as sugar beet, are grown. The younger generation are migrating to larger cities in search of careers.

Places of interest

* There are a number of Hittite burial mounds. * The rock tombs of Bininler * Asmakaya Castle * Atatürk's House, aka Great Offensive Headquarters, a

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, which was used as temporary headquarters by then Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) right before the

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in August 1922. * Şuhut Memorial Cemetery in dedication to the Turkish soldiers killed in action during the

in August 1922.

Settlements

*Şuhut * Akyuva, Şuhut * Anayurt, Şuhut * Arızlı, Şuhut * Atlıhisar, Şuhut * Aydın, Şuhut * Ağzıkara, Şuhut * Bademli, Şuhut * Balçıkhisar, Şuhut * Başören, Şuhut * Bozan, Şuhut * Çakırözü, Şuhut * Çobankaya, Şuhut * Dadak, Şuhut * Demirbel, Şuhut * Efe, Şuhut * Güneytepe, Şuhut * Hallaç, Şuhut * İcikli, Şuhut * İlyaslı, Şuhut * İsalı, Şuhut * Karaadilli, Şuhut * Karacaören, Şuhut * Karahallı, Şuhut * Karlık, Şuhut * Kavaklı, Şuhut * Kayabelen, Şuhut * Kılınçkaya, Şuhut * Koçyatağı, Şuhut * Kulak, Şuhut * Mahmutköy, Şuhut * Ortapınar, Şuhut * Oynağan, Şuhut * Paşacık, Şuhut * Senirköyü, Şuhut * TekkeKöyü, Şuhut * Uzunpınar, Şuhut * Yarışlı, Şuhut

References

External links

District governor's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Suhut Populated places in Afyonkarahisar Province Districts of Afyonkarahisar Province