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| Country |  Turkey |
| Region | Aegean |
| Province | Afyonkarahisar |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Abdullah KAPTAN |
| - Governor | Haluk İMGA |
| Elevation | 1,034 m (3,392 ft) |
| Population (2000) | |
| - Total | 128,516 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal code | 03xxx |
| Licence plate | 03 |
| Website: www.afyon-bld.gov.tr | |
Afyonkarahisar is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. 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 A governor is a governing official usually the executive (at least nominally to different degrees also politically and administratively of a non-sovereign level of government 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 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 Turkish car number plates are License plates found on Turkish vehicles Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Afyonkarahisar (also called more simply Afyon) is a province in western Turkey. Afyon is in mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, 250 km (155 mi) south-west of Ankara along the Akar River. Etymology In ancient times there were various explanations for the name Aegean. Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. Elevation 1,034 meters. Population (2000 census) 128,516.
Being high up the weather in winter is cold and the roads are icy.
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Etymology
The name is Turkish for the black castle opium, since opium was widely grown here and there is a castle on a black rock. Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Opium is a Narcotic formed from the Latex (ie sap released by lacerating (or "scoring" the immature seed pods of opium poppies ( Also known simply as Afyon. Older spellings include Karahisar-i Sahip Afium-Kara-hissar and Afyon Karahisar. City was known as Afyon (opium), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by Turkish Parliament in 2004. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi - TBMM, usually referred to simply as Meclis - "the Parliament" is the Unicameral
History
The top of the rock in Afyon has been fortified for a long, long time. It was known to the Hittites as Hapanuwa, and was later occupied by Phrygians, Lydians and Persians until it was conquered by Alexander the Great. The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family and established In antiquity Phrygia (Φρυγία was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. Defining Lydia Aside from a legend related by Herodotus, who states that the name Lydia came from king Lydus at the time of the fall of Troy layout and formatting it should ensure no clashes with the top of the infobox 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' After the death of Alexander the city (now known as Akroinon), was ruled by the Seleucids and the kings of Pergamon, then Rome and Byzantium. The Battle of Akroinon was fought at Akroinon (also known as Acroinon or Acroinum near modern Afyon) in Phrygia, on the western edge of the Anatolian The Seleucid Empire /sə'lusɪd/ ( 312 - 63 BC) was a Hellenistic empire i Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 This article is about the city See also Byzantine Empire. Byzantium ( Greek: Βυζάντιον Latin: la BYZANTIVM The Byzantine emperor Leo III after his victory over Arab besiegers in 740 renamed the city Nicopolis (Greek for the Victory City). This is a list of the Emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the Byzantine Empire by modern historians Leo III the Isaurian ' or the Syrian ' ( Greek: Λέων Γ΄ Leōn III) (c The Battle of Akroinon was fought at Akroinon (also known as Acroinon or Acroinum near modern Afyon) in Phrygia, on the western edge of the Anatolian The araB gene Promoter is a bacterial promoter activated by e L-arabinose binding This is about the year in the Gregorian Calendar Events By Place Europe October 26 — An Earthquake strikes Nicopolis (Νικόπολις city of victory) or Actia Nicopolis was an ancient city of Epirus, founded 31 BC by Octavian in memory The Seljuk Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (the black castle) after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town. The Seljuq (also Seljuq Turks, Seldjuks, Seldjuqs, Seljuks; in Turkish Selçuklular; in Ṣaljūqīyān; in Following the dispersal of the Seljuks the town was occupied by the Sahipoğulları and then the Germiyan. Fakhr al-Din Ali, better known as Sâhib Ata or Sâhip Ata, held a number of high offices at the court of the Seljuq Sultans of Rum from the 1250s For the place in Azerbaijan see Germiyan Azerbaijan. The Anatolian Turkish Beylik of Germiyan with its capital in Kütahya
The castle was much fought over during the Crusades and was finally conquered by the Ottoman Sultan Beyazid I in 1392 but was lost after the invasion of Timur Lenk in 1402. The Crusades were a series of military campaigns of a religious character waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Bayezid I ( Ottoman: بايزيد الأول Turkish: Beyazıt, nicknamed Yıldırım (Ottoman ییلدیرم "the Thunderbolt" Timur also written Emir Timur or Amir Temur ( Chagatai: تیمور - Tēmōr " Iron " (1336 – 19 February 1405 among It was recaptured in 1428 or 1429.
The area thrived during the Ottoman Empire, as the centre of opium production and Afyon became a wealthy city with the typical Ottoman urban mixture of Jews, Armenians, Greeks and Turks. This ended when during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) campaign (part of the Turkish War of Independence) Afyon and the surrounding hills were occupied by French, Italian and then Greek forces. The Turkish War of Independence (Kurtuluş Savaşı May 19, 1919 October 29, 1923) refers to the political and military resistance developed However, it was recovered in August 27, 1922, a key moment in the great Turkish counter-attack in the Aegean region. After 1923 Afyon became a part of the Republic of Turkey. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
The region was a major producer of opium (hence the name Afyon) until the late 1960s when under international pressure, from the USA in particular, the fields were burnt and production ceased.
Afyon today
Afyon is the centre of an agricultural area and the city has a country town feel to it. There is little in the way of bars, cafes, live music or other cultural amenities, and the standards of education are low for a city in the west of Turkey. However Afyon Kocatepe University opened in the 1990s and this must surely lead to improvements eventually. Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble (in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone), its sucuk (peculiar sausages), its kaymak (meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight) and various handmade weavings. Marble is a nonfoliated Metamorphic rock resulting from the Metamorphism of Limestone, composed mostly of Calcite (a crystalline form of Sujuk ( sucuk; суджук; суджук; Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian sudžuk/cyџyk; Armenian երշիկ "yershig" Kaymak or kajmak is a creamy Dairy product, similar to Clotted cream, made all over the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East Turkish Delight, lokum, or loukoum is a confection made from Starch and Sugar. There is also a large cement factory.
This is a natural crossroads, the routes from Ankara to İzmir and from Istanbul to Antalya intersect here and Afyon is a popular stopping-place on these journeys. Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. İzmir, historically Smyrna, is the third most populous city of Turkey and the country's largest port after İstanbul. Istanbul (historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see the other Names of Istanbul) is the largest city of Turkey Antalya (formerly known as Adalia; from Pamphylian Greek: Αττάλεια Attália) is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern There are a number of well-established roadside restaurants for travellers to breakfast on the local cuisine. Some of these places are modern well-equipped hotels and spas; the mineral waters of Afyon are renowned for their healing qualities. There is also a long string of roadside kiosks selling the local Turkish delight. Afyon is also an important railroad junction between İzmir, Konya, Ankara and Istanbul. İzmir, historically Smyrna, is the third most populous city of Turkey and the country's largest port after İstanbul. Konya ( قونیه; also Koniah, Konieh, Konia, and Qunia; historically also known as Iconium ( Latin Istanbul (historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see the other Names of Istanbul) is the largest city of Turkey
The cuisine of Afyon
Main courses. . . .
- sucuk - the famed local speciality, a spicy beef sauasage, eaten fried or grilled. The best known brands include Cumhuriyet.
- etli pide - a kind of minced beef pizza. Pita (also called and less commonly known as pitta or pide (Turkish pitka (Bulgarian and pronounced "pitta" in Greek is an often round
- ağzı açık or bükme - filo-style pastry stuffed with cheese or lentils.
- keşkek - boiled wheat and chick peas stewed with meat. Kashkak, keşkek, kashkeg, kishkak, kashkek, etc is a sort of Meat and Wheat or Barley Stew
and sweets. . . .
- local cream kaymak eaten with honey, with a bread pudding ekmek kadayif, or with pumpkin simmered in syrup. Kaymak or kajmak is a creamy Dairy product, similar to Clotted cream, made all over the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East Best eaten at the famous Ikbal restaurants (either the old one in the town centre or the big place on the main road).
- Turkish delight. Turkish Delight, lokum, or loukoum is a confection made from Starch and Sugar.
- helva - sweetened ground sesame
Places of interest
- The partly ruined fortress which has given the city its name
- Ulu Camii (the Great Mosque)
- Altigöz Bridge, like the Ulu Camii built by the Seljuks in the 13th century. Types Most types of halva are relatively dense confections that are sweetened with Sugar or Honey.
- the White Elephant - Afyon is twinned with the town of Hamm in Germany, and now has a large statue of Hamm's symbolic white elephant. Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW Germany. It is located on the Lippe River, in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area.
With its rich architectural heritage, the city is a member of the European Association of Historic Towns and Regions [1]. The European Association of Historic Towns and Regions ( EAHTR) founded by the Council of Europe in 1999 is a self-governing organisation of some 950 of Europe's
| Year | 1911 | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 |
| Population | 18,000 | 95,643 | 103,000 | 128,516 |
Twin towns
Hamm (GER)
, since 2006
Famous residents
- The former President of the Republic of Turkey Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW Germany. It is located on the Lippe River, in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. Ahmet Necdet Sezer (born September 13, 1941 in Afyonkarahisar) was the tenth President of the Republic of Turkey.
- General İlker Başbuğ -very high-ranking military officer. İlker Başbuğ (born 29 April 1943 is the 26th and current Chief of the Turkish General Staff, since August 30, 2008. Commander of the Turkish Army since August 30, 2006.
See also
External links
- City council website (Turkish)
- Governor's office
- Afyonkarahisar community and information
- Afyon Guide and Photo Album (English)
- Afyon and the Phrygians (English)
- Afyon Kocatepe University (English)
- Department of forestry and the environment (Turkish)
- Afyon Science High School (Turkish)
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