Eflatunpinar is the Turkish name of a Hittite site in Beyşehir district in south-west Central Anatolia, near the eastern shore of Lake Beyşehir, 80 miles west of the province seat of Konya. Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family and established Beyşehir is a large town and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Lake Beyşehir (Beyşehir Gölü is a large freshwater Lake in Isparta and Konya provinces southwestern part of Turkey. Konya ( قونیه; also Koniah, Konieh, Konia, and Qunia; historically also known as Iconium ( Latin It is also the name of the spring which rises up from the ground and creates an oasis and a fountain to drain later into the Lake Beyşehir. Lake Beyşehir (Beyşehir Gölü is a large freshwater Lake in Isparta and Konya provinces southwestern part of Turkey.

A small Hittite temple in good condition, as well as other ruins, are located in Eflatunpınar. The site is also significant in marking the limit of southwestern extension of the Hittite Empire, in the light of present knowledge.

"Eflatun" could refer either to the color lilac in Turkish, or to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who is called under this name in many eastern cultures. The unrelated but somewhat similar-looking Chinaberry ( Melia azedarach) is sometimes called "lilac" too The Ancient Greek language is the historical stage in the development of the Hellenic language family spanning the Archaic (c Biography Early life Birth and family Plato was born in Athens Greece "Pınar" means "water spring". Therefore, "Eflatunpınar" was originally either a reference to the dominant color of the water source or was, as their discoverer F.W.Hasluck chose to see it, the result of confusely crediting Plato with the springs who, according to the archaeologist, had donned for the occasion the identity of a benignly Islamicised sage in the eyes of the locals. Frederick William Hasluck (1878 – 22 February, 1920) was an English antiquarian historian and archaeologist Biography Early life Birth and family Plato was born in Athens Greece For other meanings including people named 'Islam' see Islam (disambiguation. Hasluck held that Eflatunpinar was locally considered as having been founded by Plato as a talisman to protect the residents of Konya from floods. A partial basis for his interpretation may have had to do with the fact that yet another word used to denote the color lilac in Turkish is leylak. The unrelated but somewhat similar-looking Chinaberry ( Melia azedarach) is sometimes called "lilac" too

The region corresponded to Pisidia in Classical Antiquity. Geography Although close to Mediterranean Sea on the map the warm climate of the south cannot pass the height of the Taurus Mountains. Classical antiquity (also the classical era or classical period) is a broad term for a long period of cultural History centered on the Mediterranean

Eflatunpınar's location on the lake shore corresponds to an almost exact level with other important ruins on the opposite shore, those of Kubadabad Palace, which are Seljuk. Kubadabad Palace or Kubad Abad Palace (Kubadabad Sarayı refers to a complex of summer residences built for the sultan and his court during the reign of the Seljuk

Eflatunpınar was briefly examined by the University of Oxford archaeologist Dr. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the Lucia Nixon in her paper on Çatalhöyük, and she makes use of F.W.Hasluck's early-20th century work. Çatalhöyük (ʧɑtɑl højyk in Turkish also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without Diacritics çatal is Turkish Frederick William Hasluck (1878 – 22 February, 1920) was an English antiquarian historian and archaeologist The site remains largely unexplored to date.

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