| Konya | |
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  Konya | |
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| Country |  Turkey |
| Region | Central Anatolia |
| Province | Konya |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Tahir Akyürek |
| Area | |
| - Total | 39,000 km² (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "," sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,200 m (3,937 ft) |
| Population (2007) | |
| - Total | 1,412,343 |
| - Density | 36. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions ( bölge) which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941 Turkey is divided into 81 provinces called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 2/km² (93. 8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal code | 42XXX |
| Area code(s) | (+90) 332 |
| Licence plate | 42 |
| Website: www.konya.bel.tr | |
Konya (Ottoman Turkish: قونیه; also Koniah, Konieh, Konia, and Qunia; historically also known as Iconium (Latin), Greek: Ἰκόνιον Ikónion) is a city in Turkey, on the central plateau of Anatolia. Eastern European Time ( EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Daylight saving time ( DST Eastern European Summer Time ( EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 Time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+3 is used in the following locations Moscow Time Eastern European Summer Time West Asian Summer Time A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks Turkish car number plates are License plates found on Turkish vehicles Ottoman Turkish (Osmanlıca or tr ''Osmanlı Türkçesi'' Ottoman Turkish ota-Latn ''lisân-ı Osmânî'' is the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. This is a list of Greek place names. That is a list of the names of places as they exist in the Greek language. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black It has a population of 1,412,343 (in 2007).
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Ancient history
Excavations have shown that the region was inhabited during the Late Copper Age, around 3000 BC. The Chalcolithic (Greek khalkos + lithos ' Copper stone' period or Copper Age period known as the '''Eneolithic''' ('''Æneolithic''' is a The city came under the influence of the Hittites around 1500 BC. These were overtaken by the Indo-European Sea Peoples around 1200 BC. The Sea Peoples is the term used for a confederacy of seafaring raiders of the second millennium BC who sailed into the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, caused political The Phrygians established their kingdom in central Anatolia in the 8th century BC. In antiquity Phrygia (Φρυγία was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black Xenophon describes Iconium, as the city was called, as the last city of Phrygia. Xenophon (Ancient Greek, Modern Greek "Ξενοφών" "Ξενοφώντας" ca The region was overwhelmed by Cimmerian invaders c. See Cimmeria (Conan or Cimmeria (Poem for the fiction of Robert E 690 BC. It was later part of the Persian Empire, until Darius III was defeated by Alexander the Great in 333 BC. Darius III ( Artashata) (c 380&ndash330 BC Persian داریوش Dāriūš dɔːriˈuːʃ was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Alexander the Great ( or, Mégas Aléxandros; July 20 356 BC June 10 or June 11 323 BC also known as Alexander III of Macedon (el Ἀλέξανδρος Γ' Alexander's empire broke up shortly after his death and the town came under the rule of Seleucus I Nicator. Seleucus I (surnamed for later generations Nicator, Greek: Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ, i During the Hellenistic period the town was ruled by the kings of Pergamon. When Attalus III, the last king of Pergamon, died childless, he bequeathed his empire to Rome. Attalus III (in Greek Attalos III) Philometor Euergetes (ca 170 BC &ndash 133 BC was the last Attalid king of Pergamon, ruling from Under the rule of emperor Claudius, the city's name was changed to Claudioconium, and during the rule of emperor Hadrianus to Colonia Aelia Hadriana. Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I ( August 1, 10 BC &ndash October 13, AD 54 ( Tiberius Claudius Drusus from birth to Hadrianus may refer to Hadrian (76–138 CE Roman ruler C Fabius Hadrianus (fl
Iconium was visited by Saint Paul and Barnabas, according to the Book of Acts, in 47, 50 and 53 AD. Paul the apostle (שאול התרסי Šaʾul HaTarsi, meaning " Saul of Tarsus " Σαούλ Saul and Σαῦλος Saulos and Saint Barnabas (1st century born Joseph was an early Christian convert one of the earliest disciples in Jerusalem. The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. In Christian legend, it was also the birthplace of Saint Thecla. The Acts of Paul and Thecla ( Acta Pauli et Theclae) is an apocryphal story of St Paul 's influence on a young virgin named Thecla. During the Byzantine Empire the town was destroyed several times by Arab invaders in the 7th-9th centuries.
Seljuk era
The city was captured by the Seljuk Turks following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, and from 1097 to 1243 it was the capital of Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate, though very briefly occupied by the Crusaders Godfrey of Bouillon (August 1097) and Frederick Barbarossa (May 18, 1190). The Seljuq (also Seljuq Turks, Seldjuks, Seldjuqs, Seljuks; in Turkish Selçuklular; in Ṣaljūqīyān; in The Battle of Manzikert, or Malazgirt, was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq forces led by Alp Arslan on August 26 1071 near Manzikert The Crusades were a series of military campaigns of a religious character waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents Godfrey of Bouillon (c 1060 Boulogne-sur-Mer &ndash 18 July 1100, Jerusalem) was a medieval knight who was a leader of the First Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 &ndash 10 June 1190) was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. The name of the town was changed to Konya by Rukn al-Dīn Mas'ūd in 1134. Masud I or Ma'sud I (ركن الدين مسعود Rukn al-Dīn Mas'ūd I
Konya reached its height of wealth and influence as of the second half of the 12th century when Anatolian Seljuk sultans also subdued the Turkish Beyliks to their east, especially that of Danishmends, thus establishing their rule over virtually all of eastern Anatolia, as well as acquiring several port towns along the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and even gaining a momentary foothold in Crimea. thumb|350px|Anatolian Turkish Beyliks map Anatolian Beyliks or Turkmen Beyliks ( Turkish: Anadolu Beylikleri, Ottoman Turkish: The Danishmend dynasty was a Turcoman Dynasty that ruled in north-central and eastern Anatolia in the 11th and 12th centuries Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black The Black Sea is an inland Sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolian peninsula ( Turkey Crimea (kraɪˈmiːə or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Крим Автономна Республіка Крим Avtonomna Respublika Krym; Крым This golden age lasted until the first decades of the 13th century.
By the 1220s, the city was filled with refugees from the Khwarezmid Empire, fleeing the advance of the Mongol Empire. The Khwarezmian Empire, more commonly known as the empire of the Khwarezm Shahs ( Khwārezmšhāḥīān, "Kings of Khwarezmia " The Mongol Empire ( Mongolyn Ezent Güren or mn Их Mонгол улс Ikh Mongol Uls; 1206–1368 was the largest contiguous Empire Sultan Alā al-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykā'ūs fortified the town and built a palace on top of the citadel. Kayqubad I ( Arabic / 'Alā al-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykā'ūs I In 1228 he invited Bahaeddin Veled and his son Mevlana, the founder of the Mevlevi order, to settle in Konya. The Mevlevi Order or the Mevleviye are a Sufi order founded by the followers of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi, a 13th century Persian
In 1243, following the Seljuk defeat in the Battle of Köse Dag, Konya was captured by Mongols as well. The Battle of Köse Dağ was fought between the Seljuk Turks of Rum and the Mongols on June 26 1243 at the defile of Köse The city remained the capital of Seljuk sultans, vassalized to the Ilkhanate until the end of the century. The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate or Il Khanate (Ил Хан улс Il Khan uls;) was a Mongol Khanate established in
Following the fall of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate, Konya was made an emirate in 1307 which lasted until 1322 when the city was captured by the Beylik of Karamanoğlu. An emirate is a political territory that is ruled by a dynastic Arab Monarch styled Emir. Beylik of Karaman or of Karamanoğlu ( Karamanoğulları in Turkish plural also called the Karamanid Dynasty or the Karamanids, was In 1420, Karamanoğlu fell to the Ottoman Empire and, in 1453, Konya was made the provincial capital of the Ottoman Province of Karaman. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish
Ottoman Era
Under the Ottoman Empire, in the vilayet system established after 1864, Konya was the seat of the Vilayet of Konya
According to 1896 census, Konya had a population slightly above forty thousand, of which 42,318 Muslims, 1,566 Christian Armenians and 899 Christian Greeks. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish A wilāyah (ولاية or vilâyet (in Persian and Ottoman Turkish) is an administrative division usually Konya was a vilayet in Asia Minor which included the whole or parts of Pamphylia, Pisidia, Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cilicia There were also 21 mosques and 5 Churches in the town. A still-standing Catholic church was also built for Italian railroad workers in the 1910s. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest By 1927, after the Greek-Turkish population exchange of 1923, the city was almost exclusively Muslim. The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey is the first large-scale population exchange, or agreed mutual expulsion in the 20th century
Universities
Konya is home to Selçuk University, one of the largest universities in Turkey. Selçuk University (In Turkish: Selçuk Üniversitesi) was founded on 1975.
Points in history
- The tomb of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the Persian mystical poet commonly known as "Mevlâna" to his citizens and who is the founder of the Sufi Mevlevi order (famous for The Whirling Dervishes), is located in Konya where he had spent the last fifty years of his life. Sufism ( تصوّف - taṣawwuf, Persian: صوفیگری sufigari, Turkish: tasavvuf, Urdu: تصوف The Mevlevi Order or the Mevleviye are a Sufi order founded by the followers of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi, a 13th century Persian Darvesh or Dervish ( Arabic and Persian: درویش) as it is known in European languages refers to members of Sufi
- Ibn Arabi, the great Sufi visited Konya in 1207 on the invitation of the Seljuq governor of that time and married there with the mother of his disciple Sadreddin Konevi. TemplateInfobox Muslim scholars --> Ibn Arabi (ابن عربي ( July 28, 1165 - November 10, 1240) was an Sufism ( تصوّف - taṣawwuf, Persian: صوفیگری sufigari, Turkish: tasavvuf, Urdu: تصوف The Seljuq (also Seljuq Turks, Seldjuks, Seldjuqs, Seljuks; in Turkish Selçuklular; in Ṣaljūqīyān; in
- Hazrat Shah Jalal was born in 1271 in Konya. Shah Jalal was a saint of Bengal and is the most celebrated personality of the region of Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Notable Structures
- Alaeddin Mosque
- Ince Minaret Medrese Museum
- Karatay Medrese Museum
- Mevlana Museum, formerly the tekke of Mevlana
Culture
- Alongside a generally high level of instruction and very modern buildings, Konya has a reputation of being one of the more religiously conservative metropolitan centers in Turkey. Alâeddin Mosque is the principal monument on the citadel of Konya, Turkey. Ince Minaret Medrese ( literally the medrese with the fine Minaret) is a 13th century Medrese ( school) located in Konya Karatay Medrese is a Medrese, meaning a school with a frequently but not absolutely religious focus built in Konya, Turkey, in 1251 by the Emir The Mevlâna museum, located in Konya, Turkey is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi
- One of the best known Turkish folk songs is named "Konyalım" (making reference to a loved one from Konya). The Turkish people (Türk Halkı also known as " Turks " ( Türkler) are defined mainly as being speakers of Turkish as a First language Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous [1] The song's slightly suggestive lyrics are known virtually by everybody in Turkey. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches
Image gallery
 Nalçacı |  Mevlana Meydanı (Square) |  Dedeman Konya |  Alâeddin |
 Afra Shopping Mall |  Rixos Konya |  Mevlana |  Thin Minaret |
 Alaaddin Mosque |  Alaaddin Hill Park |  Mevlana Museum |  Picnic Area in the City of Meram |
 Meram Brook |  Real Shopping Mall |  The traditional food,Etliekmek |  The wild sheep on Bozdağ,Konya |
 Hacıveyiszade Mosque |  Afra Entertainment Center |
See also
Footnotes
External links
- Detailed Pictures of Mevlana Museum
- Pictures of the city, including Mevlana Museum and several Seljuk buildings
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