Dedemli is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

Hadim Hadim is a municipality and district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,165 km2, and its population is 10,999 (2022). Its elevation is . History The area now known as Hadim was settled by a tribe of Turkmen originating from Bukhara fo ...

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 848 (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 ...

'').

Geography

Dedemli is on

Toros Mountains The Taurus Mountains ( Turkish: ''Toros Dağları'' or ''Toroslar,'' Greek'':'' Ταύρος) are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau. The system extends along a ...

, at an altitude of . It is situated just at the west of headwaters of

Göksu River The Göksu River (), known in classical antiquity, antiquity as the Calycadnus and in the Middle Ages as the Saleph, is a river on the Taşeli, Taşeli Plateau in southern Turkey. Its two sources arise in the Taurus Mountains—the northern in t ...

and a few kilometers north of Korualan, another mountain town. Dedemli is quite far from the main highways. The distances to Hadim is and to

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 ...

is .

History

According to legend, the town had been founded by a

sheikh Sheikh ( , , , , ''shuyūkh'' ) is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder (administrative title), elder". It commonly designates a tribal chief or a Muslim ulama, scholar. Though this title generally refers to me ...

(Islamic scholar) named Bayram Seydi Veli from Khorosan in the 15th century. In fact the name of the town means ''with my grandfather'' where grandfather in this context, means sheikh. In 1968, the town was declared township.

Economy

Once known for its religious schools, Dedemli is now a typical agricultural town. The most important crop is cherry. Beekeeping is another important sector.

References

{{Authority control Neighbourhoods in Hadim District