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Selçuklu District
Selçuklu is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,931 km2, and its population is 690,667 (2022). Selçuklu is one of the central districts of Konya, along with the districts of Karatay, Konya, Karatay and Meram. It covers the northwestern part of the agglomeration of Konya and the adjacent countryside. Flora Between 2004 and 2006, a study was carried out of plants in the district in the area of the Başarakavak and Tatköy neighborhoods, and the Altınapa Dam. Two species are listed as 'Endangered' according to the IUCN Red List: ''Clypeola (plant), Clypeola ciliata'' (Boiss) and ''List of Silene species, Silene lycaonica'' (Chowdh). Also listed as 'Vulnerable' were ''Iris stenophylla'' and ''Centaurea bourgaei'' (Boiss). Places to see The Konya Tropical Butterfly Garden, opened in 2015, is a major tourist attraction. Composition There are 73 mahalle, neighbourhoods in Selçuklu District: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ince Minaret Medrese
İnce Minareli Medrese (; ) is a 13th-century madrasa (Islamic school) located in Konya, Turkey, now housing the Museum of Stone and Wood Art (Taş ve Ahşap Eserler Müzesi), noted for its ornate entrance, domed courtyard, ornamentally bricked minaret, partially destroyed in 1901, and exemplar Anatolian Seljuks, Seljuk architecture. History The Ince Minaret Medrese was commissioned in 1265 by the Seljuk vizier Sâhib Ata, Ṣāḥib 'Aṭā Fakhr al-Dīn 'Alī, who was one of was one of two major patrons of architecture in Konya in the decades after the city's recapture from the Mongols. Upon his death in 1285, he was buried in his "mosque complex" within the city. Architecture Complex Layout The Ince Minaret Medrese is built close to the old center of Seljuk rule, at the foot of the citadel hill in Konya. The complex of the medrese is approximately 23.60 meters by 20.30 meters, or about 77.4 feet by 66.6 feet. In the center of the rectangular complex is a dome-covered court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Stenophylla
''Iris stenophylla'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus '' Iris'', it is also in the subgenus ''Scorpiris''. It is a bulbous perennial. Description ''Iris stenophylla'' has a very similar form to '' Iris persica''. But with different colouring. It has bulb with brown papery tunics,British Iris Society (1997) and fleshy storage roots. The stem can be hidden by the leaves. It normally has one flower per unbranched stem. The flowers appear between March and May in the UK. In America, they can appear earlier.< The flowers normally measure about 5.5-6.5 cm in diameter. They come in a range of shades, between violet-blue or lilac-blue. The falls have normally a darker blade with a violet spotted whitish area. It has a yellow or orange crest. The perianth tube is about 6–9 cm long. The leaves are shorter than the stem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Konya Province
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selçuklu District
Selçuklu is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Konya Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,931 km2, and its population is 690,667 (2022). Selçuklu is one of the central districts of Konya, along with the districts of Karatay, Konya, Karatay and Meram. It covers the northwestern part of the agglomeration of Konya and the adjacent countryside. Flora Between 2004 and 2006, a study was carried out of plants in the district in the area of the Başarakavak and Tatköy neighborhoods, and the Altınapa Dam. Two species are listed as 'Endangered' according to the IUCN Red List: ''Clypeola (plant), Clypeola ciliata'' (Boiss) and ''List of Silene species, Silene lycaonica'' (Chowdh). Also listed as 'Vulnerable' were ''Iris stenophylla'' and ''Centaurea bourgaei'' (Boiss). Places to see The Konya Tropical Butterfly Garden, opened in 2015, is a major tourist attraction. Composition There are 73 mahalle, neighbourhoods in Selçuklu District: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sızma
Sızma is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Selçuklu, Konya Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,260 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''belde''). Geography Sızma is a few kilometers west of the main road connecting Konya to Afyon. The highway distance to Konya is about . History There are ruins of Hittites and Roman Empire in the vicinity. But the town was founded by a group of Yörüks (nomadic Oghuz Turks) in the Middle Ages. The earliest name was Sizemene; but later on, it was shortened to Sızma. Economy There is an abandoned mercury mine in Sızma with the ore grade of 0.6 to 1% that was once a major economic activity of the town. Likewise carpet weaving is also declining. Presently, the main economic activity is agriculture (cereals) and animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, animal fiber, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sille, Konya
Sille, also known as Sille Subaşı and historically Sylata, is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Selçuklu, Konya Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,191 (2022). Sille Subaşı was one of the few villages where the Cappadocian Greek language was spoken until 1922. It was inhabited by Greeks who had been living there in peaceful coexistence with the nearby Turkish people, Turks of Konya for over 800 years. The reason for this peaceful coexistence was Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, who was the witness of a miracle that happened at the nearby Eastern Orthodox, Orthodox Christian monastery of Saint Chariton. In the Turkish language the monastery is now called ''Akmanastir'' and is translated as, "White Monastery". Jalal al-Din Rumi constructed a small mosque inside the Saint Chariton monastery. It is also notable that Jalal al-Din Rumi wrote Greek poems using the Arabic-Turkish script, while Greek Sille villagers wrote Turkish using the Greek alphabet scripting. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
