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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Turkey
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on a plain surrounded by pine-covered mountains, 33 km from 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 ...
on the road to
UÅŸak
UÅŸak () is a city in the interior part of the Aegean Region of Turkey. It is the seat of UÅŸak Province and UÅŸak District.Ä°zmir
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. It is the seat of
SinanpaÅŸa District
Sinanpaşa District is a district of Afyonkarahisar Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Sinanpaşa.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023. Its population is 3,544 (2021). The mayor is Erdal Karaman ( AKP).
Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are dry and hot.
History
The area has been a crossroads since antiquity, with archaeological evidence indicating habitation since 4000 BC. Surface excavations in the village of Küçükhöyük go back to 3000 BC.
The name Sinan PaÅŸa comes from the son of a lord of the
Akkoyunlu Akkoyunlu can refer to:
* Akkoyunlu, Başmakçı
* Akkoyunlu, Çermik
* Akkoyunlu, Çobanlar
* the Turkish name for Aq Qoyunlu
The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (, ; ) was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''M ...
Mehmet II
Mehmed II (; , ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (; ), was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481.
In Mehmed II's first reign, ...
during the war between the Akkoyunlu and the warrior
Uzun Hasan
Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan (; February or March 1425 – January 6, 1478) was a ruler of the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. Hasan ruled between 1452 and 1478 and presided ove ...
(the
Otlukbeli
Otlukbeli is a municipality (belde) and seat of Otlukbeli District of Erzincan Province in Turkey. It had a population of 2,036 in 2021. It is divided into the neighborhoods of Fatih, Mehmet Akif Ersoy and Åžehitler.
History
In 1835, the village o ...
War). Later in the Ottoman period the important general ''Hersekzade Ahmet PaÅŸa'' settled here in the village still known as ''Ahmet PaÅŸa'' today.
The town was occupied by
Greek
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forces during the
Turkish War of Independence
, strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...
, but was recovered during the great Turkish counter-attack in 1922.
SinanpaÅŸa today
Nowadays SinanpaÅŸa is a country town providing schools, hospital and other infrastructure to the surrounding countryside, where poppy seeds, wheat and other grains are grown.