Aksaray Province

Aksaray Province Aksaray ili
Province o Turkey
Location of Aksaray Province in Turkey
Kintra	Turkey
Region	Central Anatolie
Govrenment
• Electoral destrict	Aksaray
Area
• Tot	7,626 km2 (2,944 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Tot	396,673
• Density	52/km2 (130/sq mi)
Area code(s)	0382
Vehicle registration	68

Aksaray Province (Turkis: Aksaray ili) is a province in central Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Konya alang the wast an sooth, Niğde tae the sootheast, Nevşehir tae the east, an Kırşehir tae the north. It covers an aurie o 7,626 km². The provincial caipital is the ceety o Aksaray.

This is a region o great naitural brawness: Aksaray is ane o the fower provinces in the hintle-visitit aurie o Cappadocia, alang wi Nevşehir, Niğde an Kayseri. An aw the 3,000m volcano Mount Hasan staunds atween Aksaray an Niğde. Simmers are het an dry on the plain, but the aurie is green an covered in flouers in waretime, when watter streams aff the muntainside. The 2400 km² salt lake, Tuz Gölü, lees athin the boondaries o Aksaray, a muckle aurie o swamp wi a maximum depth o 1 metre.

Destricts

Aksaray province is dividit intae 7 destricts (caipital destrict in bauld):

• Ağaçören
• Aksaray
• Eskil
• Gülağaç
• Güzelyurt
• Ortaköy
• Sarıyahşi

Etymologie

In antiquity the aurie wis namit Archelais Garsaura, which wis mutatit tae Taksara durin the Seljuk Turkish era, an then tae Aksaray.

History

Inner courtyard o the Sultanhanı caravanserai

The plains o central Anatolie hae been settled for 8,000 year. an the aurie aroond Aksaray bears monuments tae a string o ceevilisations that hae settled on the plain in that time. The moond o Aşıklı Höyük in the toun o Kızılkaya indicates a dounset datin back tae 5,000BC (an a skull o a wumman an aw who haed apparently been trepanned, the earliest kent record o brain surgery).

Later the Silk Road came throu here sae caravanserai an then muckler an muckler dounsets wur biggit tae supply an shelter travellers an traders. The ceety an surroondins o Aksaray thrivit in the Roman, Byzantine an the Turkis periods.

The day Aksaray is a rural, agricultural province, its fowk releegious an conservative. Syne the 1950s mony hae muivit tae Europe as migrant wirkers. The population o Aksaray haes lang includit a heicher proportion o Kurdish fowk than maist central Anatolie provinces. Mony o them wur resettled here frae Tunceli an ither eastren ceeties follaein the Sheikh Said rebellion in the 1920s.

Places o interest

A view frae Ihlara valley, Aksaray

• Aşıklı Höyük - a burial moond 25 km east o the ceety o Aksaray.
• Acemhöyük - an early Bronze Age dounset, 18 km north-wast o the ceety o Aksaray.
• The auncient ceety o Nora, in the veelage o Helvadere near the ceety o Aksaray.

an a great nummer o historical mosques an kirns

• Ihlara valley - a canyon, 40 km frae the ceety o Aksaray, in the destrict o Güzelyurt
• Taşpınar - famous for rugs, 27 kilometre (17 mi) sooth o Aksaray

See an aw

• Leet o populatit places in Aksaray Province
• Aksaray Archived 2020-11-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkis)

References

• Site di Aksaray Archived 2020-11-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkis)

Freemit airtins

• Aksaray govrenor's offeecial wabsteid Archived 2009-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Turkis) Aksaray municipality's offeecial wabsteid
• eich resolution picturs o the ceety Archived 2012-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Aksaray weather forecast information Archived 2010-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Turkis) Aksaray University student wabsteids Archived 2019-05-09 at the Wayback Machine