Beyşehir

	Beyşehir
	; Beyşehir seen from Beyşehir Gölü; the mosque with its minaret is on the right in the picture
Basic data
Province (il) :	Konya
Coordinates :	37 ° 41 ′ N , 31 ° 44 ′ E Coordinates: 37 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ N , 31 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	1124 m
Residents :	34,741 (2011)
Telephone code :	(+90) 332
Postal code :	42 700
License plate :	42
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Mayor :	Adil Bayındır (Independent)
Website:	www.beysehir.bel.tr
Beyşehir County
Residents :	69,966 (2011)
Surface:	2,116 km²
Population density :	33 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Muzaffer Başıbüyük
Website (Kaymakam):	www.beysehir.gov.tr

Beyşehir is a district in the Turkish province of Konya and its capital. It is located in the southeast of Lake Beyşehir . The area is 2,652 km². The height above sea level is 1,124 m. The district has a total of 72,712 inhabitants, 32,799 of whom live in the center of the district. The population density is 27 inhabitants / km².

Attractions

Tell (in Turkish Höyük) Erbaba is ten kilometers northwest of Beyşehir . The age of the tell is estimated at 7,500 years, so it comes from the Neolithic , also called Neolithic. This tell was discovered by the archaeologist Ralph Soleck and was uncovered in the 1970s under the direction of Jacques and Luise Alpes Bordaz. The tell has a diameter of approx. 80 m. Four layers of construction were uncovered in Erbaba. In the bottom layer you could hardly find anything. But some finds were made in the third shift. Stone blocks were used in the construction of the first, second and third floors. The red-plastered limestone walls are over 60 cm thick and were connected with mud mortar .

About 20 km north is the Hittite spring sanctuary Eflatun Pınar , 20 km east the perhaps associated monument of Fasıllar .

In Beyşehir itself there is the Eşrefoğlu Mosque , one of the few mosque buildings with wooden pillars and roofs that has been preserved from the time of the Eşrefoğullari Beyliks (approx. 1280-1326). Some of the oldest known Anatolian knotted carpets were found in the mosque .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed December 3, 2012
↑ Altan Çilingiroğlu, Zafer Derin, Esref Abay. Ulucak Höyük: Excavations Conducted Between 1995 and 2002, Peeters Publishers, 2004 in the Google book search p. 42 ISBN 90-429-1391-6
^ Astrid Nunn. Wall painting and glazed wall decorations in the ancient Orient. BRILL, 1988 in Google Book Search p. 35 ISBN 90-04-08428-2
^ Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl: Primitive Rugs of the "Konya" type in the Mosque of Beyshehir . In: The Art Bulletin . 13, No. 4, December 1931, pp. 177-220.

Web links

Commons : Beyşehir - collection of images, videos and audio files

[Infobox_Ort_in_der_Türkei.EinwohnerOrt-1] Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed December 3, 2012

[2] Altan Çilingiroğlu, Zafer Derin, Esref Abay. Ulucak Höyük: Excavations Conducted Between 1995 and 2002, Peeters Publishers, 2004 in the Google book search p. 42 ISBN 90-429-1391-6

[3] Astrid Nunn. Wall painting and glazed wall decorations in the ancient Orient. BRILL, 1988 in Google Book Search p. 35 ISBN 90-04-08428-2

[Beyshehir_fragments-4] Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl: Primitive Rugs of the "Konya" type in the Mosque of Beyshehir . In: The Art Bulletin . 13, No. 4, December 1931, pp. 177-220.