Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish (, ; ) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian. It was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. ...
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Ancient Greek
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Σύνναδα ''Synnada'') is a town in
Afyonkarahisar Province
Afyonkarahisar Province (), often shortened to Afyon Province, is a Provinces of Turkey, province in western Turkey. Its area is 14,016 km2, and its population is 747,555 (2022). The provincial capital is Afyonkarahisar.
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Şuhut District
Şuhut District is a Districts of Turkey, district of Afyonkarahisar Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Şuhut.
.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023. Its population is 15,054 (2021). It lies in a small plain, 29 km east of the city of
Afyon
Afyonkarahisar (, 'poppy, opium', ''kara'' 'black', ''hisar'' 'fortress') is a major city in western Turkey. It is the administrative centre of Afyonkarahisar Province and Afyonkarahisar District. Its population is 251,799 (2021). Afyon is in the ...
Excavations of a burial mound at Kepirtepe show the plain has been settled since the Neolithic period. The town was established during the Hittite period and grew under the
Romans
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*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
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, by then it was known as ''Synnada''. See Synnada for details on the area in antiquity and for the ecclesiastical history of the town in the
Byzantine
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period.
Today
Today Şuhut is a country town providing schools and other amenities to the surrounding rural area. Much of the land is used for raising beef cattle and growing wheat; Şuhut is famed for the quality of its meat and wheat stew, called
keşkek
Keşkek, also known as kashkak, kashkek, or keške, is a ceremonial meat or chicken and wheat or barley stew found in Turkish cuisine, Turkish, Iranian cuisine, Iranian, Greek cuisine, Greek, Armenian cuisine, Armenian, and Balkan cuisine, Balk ...
. There is also a poultry industry and other crops, such as sugar beet, are grown. The younger generation are migrating to larger cities in search of careers.
Places of interest
* There are a number of Hittite burial mounds.
* The rock tombs of Bininler
* Asmakaya Castle
* Atatürk's House, aka Great Offensive Headquarters, a
historic house museum
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, which was used as temporary headquarters by then Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) right before the
Great Offensive
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in August 1922.
* Şuhut Memorial Cemetery in dedication to the Turkish soldiers killed in action during the
Great Offensive
The Great Offensive () was the largest and final military operation of the Turkish War of Independence, fought between the Turkish Armed Forces loyal to the government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, and the Kingdom of Greece, ending ...