KONYA
AREA: 38.183 km²
POPULATION: 1.750.303 (1990)
TRAFFIC CODE: 42
Konya is one of the first inhabited cities
in the history of mankind, and still
contains traces of many ancient
civilisations, which gives it the atmosphere
of a museum city. Because of its locations
in the middle of the barren Anatolian
steppe, it was once one of the most
important trading centers on the Silk Road.
The fertile land around the city means Konya
is also the heart of Turkey’s grain
industry, with farming a major industry.
Steeped in tradition, it is one of the most
conservative and religious places in the
country, and best known as the adopted home
of Celaleddin Rumi, the Sufic mystic who
founded the Whirling Dervish sect. Today it
is still a center of Sufic practice and
teaching, and one of the highlights for
visitors is the Mevlana Museum, the former
lodge of the dervishes.
DISTRICTS: Konya (center), Ahırlı, Akören,
Akşehir, Altınekin, Beyşehir, Bozkır,
Cihanbeyli, Çeltik, Çumra, Derbent,
Derebucak, Doğanhisar, Emirgazi, Ereğli,
Güneysınır, Hadim, Halkapınar, Hüyük, Ilgın,
Kadınhanı, Karapınar, Karatay, Kulu, Meram,
Sarayönü, Selçuklu, Seydişehir, Taşkent,
Tuzlukçu, Yazlıhöyük, Yunak.
SITES OF INTEREST: Çamlıköy, Yakamanastır,
Kale, Huğlu, Karaburun and Kızılören forest
recreation areas, Meram vinyards, hot
springs, İvriz stone relief, Beyşehir
Castle, Akmanastır (monastry), Hagia Eleni
Church, Sırçalı old theological school (medrese),
Tacül Vezir old theological school (medrese)
and Mausoleum, İnce Minareli Medrese, Ali
Gav, Küçük Karatay, Karatay and İsmail Aka (Taş
Medrese) old theological schools (medrese),
Has Bey and Nasuh Bey Quran schools for
children (darülhuffaz), Seydişehir school
for teachers (muallimhane), İplikçi Mosque
and school, Sadreddin Konevi Mosque and
Mausoleum, Alaeddin Dursunoğlu, Selimiye,
Kapı, Aziziye, Eşrefoğlu and Pir Hüseyin
mosques, Sahip Ata, Karabaş Veli and Lala
Mustafa Pasha mosque complexes, Akşehir and
Ereğli Grand Mosques, Mevlana Mausoleum and
Dervish Lodge, Nasreddin Hoca Mausoleum, the
small mosques (mescit) - Taş Mescit, Sırçalı
Mescit, Karatay, Tahir and Zühre, Altunkalem,
Güdük Minare and Küçük Ayasofya mescits,
Yusuf Ağa Library, Kubadabad Palace, Seyyid
Mahmud Hayran and Şeyh Şahabeddin lodges,
Kızılviran, Sultan, Zazadin, Horozlu, Kadın,
İshaklı and Kuruçeşme inns, Rüstem Pasha inn
(caravansary), Konya Archeology, Karatay
Tile Works, Konya Stone and Wood Works,
Konya Monument Graves, Atatürk's House and
Culture, Konya Ethnography, Konya Mevlana,
Koyunoğlu, Akşehir Stone Works, Akşehir,
Atatürk and Ethnography, Ereğli Museums.
For more information
click here (REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY
OF CULTURE AND TOURISM)
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