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Bucakkışla, Karaman
Bucakkışla is a village in Karaman District of Karaman Province, Turkey. Its population is 145 (2022). Geography Bucakkışla is on the way connecting Karaman to Ermenek. Its distance to Karaman is The average elevation of the village with respect to sea level is . Göksu River runs south of Bucakkışla. Population The population of Bucakkışla consists of Yörüks (nomadic Oghuz Turks). Most of them are probably of Bıçakçı tribe. During the early Ottoman Empire era, they initially used the location as their winter quarters, and in the 19th century Bucakkışla became their permanent settlement. Although the village was declared a bucak center in 1930, which is administratively more important than a village, the population declined towards the end of the 20th century because of migration to cities. Economy Main economic activity is greenhouse vegetable and fruit growing. Pomegranate, fig and olive are among the main products. See also *Bıçakçı Bridge Bıçakçı B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karaman District
Karaman District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central" in Turkish) is a Districts of Turkey, district of the Karaman Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Karaman.İl Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 206,240 (2022). With an area of 4,036 km2, it is the largest district of Turkey. Composition There are three municipality, municipalities in Karaman District: * Akçaşehir, Karaman, Akçaşehir * Karaman * Sudurağı There are 93 villages of Turkey, villages in Karaman District:, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karaman Province
Karaman Province () is a province of south-central Turkey. Its area is 8,678 km2, and its population is 260,838 (2022). According to the 2000 census, the population was 243,210. The population density is 30 people/km. The traffic code is 70. The capital is the city of Karaman. Karaman was the location of the Karamanid Beylik, which came to an end in 1486. Districts and Towns Karaman Province is divided into 6 districts: * Ayrancı * Başyayla * Ermenek * Karaman * Kazımkarabekir * Sarıveliler Towns include Sudurağı, Akçaşehir, and Güneyyurt. Place of interest * Binbirkilise, a region around Mount Karadağ north of Karaman with Byzantine church ruins. Churches * Çeşmeli Kilise (Surp Asvadzadzin Ermeni Kilisesi) * Fisandon Church * Binbir Church See also * Görmeli, a village on the hillside of the Taurus Mountains near Ermenek * Mount Karadağ, an extinct volcano north of Karaman city * List of populated places in Karaman Province Gallery F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turkish people, Turks, while ethnic Kurds in Turkey, Kurds are the Minorities in Turkey, largest ethnic minority. Officially Secularism in Turkey, a secular state, Turkey has Islam in Turkey, a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya. First inhabited by modern humans during the Late Paleolithic, present-day Turkey was home to List of ancient peoples of Anatolia, various ancient peoples. The Hattians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TÜİK
Turkish Statistical Institute (commonly known as TurkStat; or TÜİK) is the Turkish government agency commissioned with producing official statistics on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It was founded in 1926 and headquartered in Ankara. Formerly named as the State Institute of Statistics (Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü (DİE)), the institute was renamed as the Turkish Statistical Institute on November 18, 2005. See also * List of Turkish provinces by life expectancy References External linksOfficial website of the institute National statistical services Statistical Organizations established in 1926 Organizations based in Ankara {{Sci-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karaman
Karaman is a city in south central Turkey, located in Central Anatolia, north of the Taurus Mountains, about south of Konya. It is the seat of Karaman Province and Karaman District.İl Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 175,390 (2022). The town lies at an average elevation of . The Karaman Museum is one of the major sights. 
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Ermenek
Ermenek is a town in Karaman Province in the Mediterranean Region, Turkey, Mediterranean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Ermenek District.İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 11,629 (2022). As ancient Germanicopolis (Isauria), Germanicopolis (in Isauria; has namesakes), a former bishopric, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Names The town was historically known as Germanicopolis (Greek language, Greek: ), Germanig and possibly Clibanus; which later mutated to Ermenek.History Germanicopolis was an ancient town in the Roman province of Isauria. The city took its name from Germanicus, grandnephew and grandson-in-law of first Emperor Augustus, as several others. The Crusad ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göksu River
The Göksu River (), known in classical antiquity, antiquity as the Calycadnus and in the Middle Ages as the Saleph, is a river on the Taşeli, Taşeli Plateau in southern Turkey. Its two sources arise in the Taurus Mountains—the northern in the Geyik Mountains and the southern in the Haydar Mountains—and meet south of Mut (District), Mersin, Mut. The combined stream then flows south to the Göksu Delta in the Mediterranean Sea near Silifke. Names is Turkish language, Turkish for "Sky Water". It is also known as the Geuk Su. It was known to the ancient Greeks as the ''Kalýkadnos'' (), latinization of names, latinized as the . It was known in the Middle Ages as the . Course The river is 260 km long and empties into the Mediterranean Sea 16 km southeast of Silifke (in Mersin province). The Göksu Delta, including Akgöl Lake and Paradeniz, Paradeniz Lagoon, is one of the most important breeding areas in the Near East; over 300 bird species have been observed. Amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yörüks
The Yörüks, also Yuruks or Yorouks (; , ''Youroúkoi''; ; , ''Juruci''), are a Turkish ethnic subgroup of Oghuz descent, some of whom are nomadic, primarily inhabiting the mountains of Anatolia, and partly in the Balkan peninsula. On the Balkans Yörüks are distributed over a wide area from the eastern parts of North Macedonia, parts of Bulgaria, north to Larissa in Thessaly and southern Thrace in Greece.Svanberg, Ingvar: The turkish-speaking ethnic groups in Europe (pp.65-128) iEuropa ethnica, volume 41 W. Braumüller, 1984, p.68. Their name derives from the Old Turkish verb "yörü", meaning "to walk", and they are also called Yörük or Yürük. The contractions o > u and ö > ü in the first syllable in Rumelian dialects are typical, and while they are called Yörük in Anatolia, the Yürük form is used in Rumelia. These contractions are due to the Kipchak Turkic influence on dialects of Turkish. The Yörüks were under the Yörük Sanjak, () which was not a territori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oghuz Turks
The Oghuz Turks ( Middle Turkic: , ) were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. In the 8th century, they formed a tribal confederation conventionally named the Oghuz Yabgu State in Central Asia. Today, much of the populations of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are descendants of Oghuz Turks. The term Oghuz was gradually supplanted by the terms Turkmen and Turcoman ( or ''Türkmân'') by the 13th century.Lewis, G. ''The Book of Dede Korkut''. Penguin Books, 1974, p. 10. The Oghuz confederation migrated westward from the Jeti-su area after a conflict with the Karluk allies of the Uyghurs. In the 9th century, the Oghuz from the Aral steppes drove Pechenegs westward from the Emba and Ural River region. In the 10th century, the Oghuz inhabited the steppe of the rivers Sari-su, Turgai and Emba north of Lake Balkhash in modern-day Kazakhstan. They embraced Islam and adapted their traditions and institutions to the Islam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucak (administrative Unit)
Bucak (pronounced 'budjak') is a Turkish word meaning "corner", and in the administrative sense, a subdistrict. Its variants are also names for various localities in Asia and Europe. * Bucak (administrative unit), subdistricts of Turkey, also known as ''nahiyes'' * Bucak, Burdur, a town and district of Burdur Province, Turkey * Bucak, Çivril * Budjak, a region in Southern Bessarabia * Sedat Bucak (born 1960), Turkish chieftain and politician See also * Budjak (other) * Bujak (other) * Bucaq, Yevlakh (other) {{disambig, geo, surname Turkish words and phrases Turkish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bıçakçı Bridge
Bıçakçı Bridge (literally "Cutter's Bridge") is a historic deck arch bridge in Karaman Province, southwestern Turkey. It is on the road Bucakkışla - Ermenek, and spans over the Göksu River at . The length of the asymmetric stone deck arch bridge is . Its width is It consists of a -long main arch flanked by two minor arches. There are also four auxiliary flood openings two in each side. The exact construction date is unknown. Judging from the masonry, it is assumed that the bridge was built in the 14th century when the area around the bridge was under the rule of Karamanids The Karamanids ( or ), also known as the Emirate of Karaman and Beylik of Karaman (), was a Turkish people, Turkish Anatolian beyliks, Anatolian beylik (principality) of Salur tribe origin, descended from Oghuz Turks, centered in South-Centra .... Legend According to a legend, the bridge was commissioned by a very wealthy woman. At the end of the construction, the architect was paid. After the pay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
