Korkuteli is a municipality and

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. Its area is 2,433 km², and its population is 56,285 (2022). It is north-west of the city of

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. It was previously called İstanoz or Stenez.

Etymology

Its modern name comes from Korkut, an Ottoman prince, who was murdered by his brother

Selim I Selim I (; ; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute (), was the List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite lasting only eight years, his reign is ...

while trying to hide in a cave in the district.

Geography

Korkuteli is an area of small plains and hills in the Bey Dağları, the western range of the

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, overlooking the Mediterranean sea. There are two distinct geographical areas of Korkuteli, of equal size: the lowland area nearer the coast has a hot Mediterranean climate, while the larger area of lakes higher up is cooler and less humid. The high country is covered with pine forest, while the lowland is used for agriculture; crops include grains, pulses and vegetable oil-seeds. There are trout in Korkuteli reservoir and other small lakes. Until recently economic activity in this district was basically herding sheep and goats on the hillsides, but since the 1960s investment in irrigation and machinery has generated a thriving fruit-growing industry, including many roadside stalls selling fruit to travellers en route to the Mediterranean coast. This in turn has led to better buildings and infrastructure in the town of Korkuteli and the villages in the district. There is no industry or large-scale trading. Korkuteli is a small town of 15,000 people providing high schools and other basic infrastructure to the district. The countryside is attractive and Antalya's middle-classes are building holiday homes in Korkuteli, a place to escape the summer heat on the coast. The local delicacy is 'burnt ice-cream', made of goats-milk. Korkuteli has a

hot-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate ( ), also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen and Trewartha as ''Cs'', is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude). Such climates typic ...

(

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: ''Csa''), with hot, dry summers, and chilly, damp, and occasionally snowy winters.

Composition

There are 59 neighbourhoods in Korkuteli District: * Akyar * Alaaddin * Aşağıpazar * Avdan * Bahçeyaka * Bayat * Bayatbademleri * Beğiş * Bozova * Büyükköy * Çaykenarı * Çıvgalar * Çomaklı * Çukurca * Dereköy * Duraliler * Esenyurt * Garipçe * Göçerler * Güzle * İmecik * İmrahor * Karabayır * Karakuyu * Karataş * Kargalık * Kargın * Karşıyaka * Kayabaşı * Kemerağzı * Kevzer * Kiremitli * Kırkpınar * Kızılaliler * Kızılcadağ * Köseler * Kozağacı * Küçükköy * Küçüklü * Leylek * Mamatlar * Manay * Nebiler * Osmankalfalar * Sımandır * Söğütcük * Sülekler * Taşkesiği * Tatköy * Uzunoluk * Yakaköy * Yalınlıgediği * Yazır * Yeleme * Yelten * Yeni * Yeşiloba * Yeşilyayla * Yukarıkaraman

History

Buildings of the Roman and

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periods in Korkuteli include the ''Keşiş Evi'' ("priest's house") and the building that later became the ''Hamidoglu Medrese'', which has

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inscriptions. The area was taken from the Byzantines by the

Seljuk Turks The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; , ''Saljuqian'',) alternatively spelled as Saljuqids or Seljuk Turks, was an Oghuz Turks, Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate society, Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persi ...

of Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev I in 1207, and was used as a summer residence by the local Seljuk rulers. Seljuk architecture in Korkuteli includes the mosque of Sultan Alaadin and some Turkish baths and tombs. Upon the decline of the Seljuks in the early 14th century the area became a stronghold of the Beylik of Teke and then of the Hamidid clan of nearby Isparta.

Bayezid I Bayezid I (; ), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (; ; – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of ''Sultan-i Rûm'', ''Rûm'' being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 139 ...

brought the district into the

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in 1392.

Isinda

Nearby was the ancient town of Isinda, whose site is now thought to be at the village of Kişla, though formerly identified with Yazır. In the 1840s, T.A.B. Spratt and E. Forbes visited Kişla, an hour's ride from Korkuteli (referred to as Stenez), with extensive walls of soft stone and burnt brick, and identified it as the city of Isinda, which the Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, on his victorious march through Asia Minor in 189 BC, found besieged by Termessus. At the city's request he raised the siege and fined the Termessians 50 talents.T.A.B. Spratt and E. Forbes, ''Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis'' (van Voorst, 1847), pp. 246–247
/ref> Isinda stood in a strategic position at the western end of the pass leading from Pamphylia by Termessus to Pisidia.''Mittheilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Institutes in Athen'' (1885), reprinted by London: Forgotten Books, 2013, p. 339–340 Together with Aperlae, Apollonia and Simena, Isinda was a member of a tetrapolis, a federation of four cities. Samples of the extensive coinage of Isinda are extant, which give evidence that it considered itself an Ionian colony. Isinda was later included in the

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of Pamphylia Secunda. At an early stage, it became a

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, a

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of the

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of Perge, the capital of the province. Of its

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s, Cyrillus took part in the

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in 325, Edesius in the Council of Ephesus in 431, Marcellinus in the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Talleleus in the

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in 553, Ignatius in the Photian

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. No longer a residential bishopric, Isinda is now listed by the

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as a

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Demographics

The district has a population of 56,285 (2022). The town itself has 28,725 inhabitants.

References

External links

The Antalya governorate
{{Authority control Populated places in Antalya Province Districts of Antalya Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey Pisidia