Bünyan is a municipality and

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Kayseri Province The Kayseri Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey. Its area is 16,970 km2, and its population is 1,441,523 (2022). It borders with Sivas, Adana, Niğde, Kahramanmaraş, Yozgat and Nevşehir provinces. T ...

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. Its area is 1,210 km², and its population is 29,704 (2022).

History

Evidence that the history of Bunyan is very old can be understood from the existing caves and ruins in the villages near the district. It is understood that it dates back to the

Hittites The Hittites () were an Anatolian peoples, Anatolian Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of the Bronze Age in West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in mo ...

from 4000-1200 BC. It was Turkified during the Anatolian Seljuk State, which experienced

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, Assyrian and

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cultures. The region was annexed to the lands of the

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 Centr ...

by Yavuz Sultan Selim in 1515. The district, which used to be called Sarımsaklı, was removed from the Pınarbaşı (Aziziye) district of

Sivas Province Sivas Province () is a province of Turkey. It is located in the eastern part of the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Its area is 28,164 km2 (the second largest province after Konya), and its population is 634,924 (2022). Its adjacent prov ...

in 1895 and became a district by gaining the name of Bünyan-ı Hamid. This name means "The Structure of Hamid". As a result of the declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy in 1908, the Ottoman Sultan II. With the abdication of Abdülhamid, the name Hamid was abolished and his name continued as Bünyan. In 1912, it was separated from Sivas province and connected to

. The historical artifacts in the region are from the times of the

and

Seljuks The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; , ''Saljuqian'',) alternatively spelled as Saljuqids or Seljuk Turks, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture. The founder of th ...

. Some of these works are the Daniş Ali Bey Mosque in Büyük Bürüngüz village, Bünyan Ulu Mosque in Cami-i Kebir neighborhood, Kayabaşı Caves, Abdurrahman Gazi Tomb and caves in Samağır village, Şammaspir Church in Doğanlar neighborhood, Seyit Halil Tomb in Karakaya town, Priest Fountain in Yenice neighborhood, Sultanhanı village. Khan and Karatay Inn in Karadayı village.

Composition

There are 46

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in Bünyan District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. * Ağcalı * Akçatı * Akmescit * Asmakaya * Bayramlı * Burhaniye * Büyüktuzhisar * Camiicedit * Camiikebir * Cumhuriyet * Dağardı * Dervişağa * Doğanlar * Ekinciler * Elbaşı * Emirören * Fatih * Gergeme * Girveli * Güllüce * Hezarşah * İbrahimbey * İğdecik * Kahveci * Karacaören * Karahıdırlı * Karakaya * Karatay * Kardeşler * Köprübaşı * Kösehacılı * Koyunabdal * Musaşeyh * Pirahmet * Sağlık * Samağır * Sıvgın * Sultanhanı * Sümer * Topsöğüt * Yağmurbey * Yakutiye * Yavuzselim * Yeni Süksün * Yenice * Yünören

References

Bünyan District Governorship

Bünyan

Kayserim
Districts of Kayseri Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey Populated places in Kayseri Province {{Kayseri-geo-stub