Sağlık is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

Meram Meram is a municipality and district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,822 km2, and its population is 348,325 (2022). Meram is one of the central districts of Konya, along with the districts of Karatay and Selçuklu. It covers the sou ...

Konya Province Konya Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality in southwest Central Anatolia, Turkey. Its area is 40,838 km2, making it the largest province by area, and its population is 2,296,347 (2022). The provincial capital is the city ...

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, Armen ...

. Its population is 447 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''

belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...

''). Sağlık is a small town situated on the northern slopes of a hill to the west of

Konya Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...

History

The former name of the town was ''Ağrıs''. After the Seljuk rule the town was annexed by the

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 ...

in 1308. There were two public buildings commissioned by

in the 15th century: A religious school () built in 1421 and a ''zaviye'' (house of religious order) named ''Doğan Yörük zaviyesi''. Sağlık was a village during

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 ...

era. In 1884 census, the total population was found to be 585. In 1971 Sağlık was declared a township.

Economy

The main economic activity is agriculture and animal husbandry. The town has always been famed for hot springs. In a systematical research, it is reported that the temperature of the water is 60 °C (140 °F) and the flow rate is 55 lt/s.Newspaper article
/ref> Thermal spas under planning or construction may contribute to town economy.

References

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