Hadim (Konya)

Hadim
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Konya
Coordinates :	36 ° 59 ′  N , 32 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 59 ′ 11 ″  N , 32 ° 27 ′ 20 ″  E
Height :	1527  m
Surface:	771 km²
Residents :	13,572 (2013)
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+90) 332
Postal code :	42830
License plate :	42
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Mayor :	Ahmet Hadimioğlu ( AKP )
Website:	www.hadim.bel.tr
Hadim County
Residents :	13,572 (2013)
Surface:	771 km²
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam :	Mutlu Köksal
Website (Kaymakam):	www.hadim.gov.tr

Hadim is a city and a district in the Turkish province of Konya .

Since a regional reform in 2014 , the municipality ( Belediye ) is congruent with the district (İlçe). All previous villages ( köy ) are now districts ( Mahalle ) of the municipality. The city is located about 100 kilometers south of the provincial capital Konya . From 1960 to 2005 the place was officially called Hadım . Then the place got the name back in the original spelling. The name means "servant".

The district is located in the south of the province. It borders in the south on Taşkent , in the west on the province of Antalya , in the north on Bozkır and Güneysınır and in the east on the province of Karaman . The D-340 highway runs through Hadim from Beyşehir in the northwest to Mut in the southeast. From there the D-705 branches off to the north, which meets the D-715 shortly before Konya. The district lies between the mountain ranges Geyik Dağı in the south and Esenler Dağı in the north. The highest peaks are the Kartal Dağı (2165 meters) and the Mağara Dağı (2175 meters) in the east, the Kuşak Dağı (2452 meters) and the Çekiç Dağı (2275 meters) in the southwest and the Çal Dağı (2127 meters) in the northwest. To the east of the main town, the river Balcılar Çayı crosses the district, which flows north of it into the Göksu, which flows through from west to east . On the northern border lies the Bağbaşı Barajı reservoir, which is fed by several small watercourses .

The place is connected with the Islamic scholar and mystic Ebû Saîd Hâdimî (Abū Saʿīd al-Ḫādimī), who was born here in 1701 and taught in the madrasa in Hadim from around 1730. Hadim thereby became a well-known center of Islamic learning. Ebû Said's grave is in the cemetery west of Hadim.

Attractions

In the north of the district near Bolat are the ruins of an ancient city, possibly with the name Astra. In the east near the place Çiftepınar the Göksu forms the waterfalls Yerköprü Şelalesi .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 5, 2014
2. ↑ Mustafa Yayla in: İslâm Ansiklopedisi , sv HÂDİMÎ, Ebû Saîd (vol. 15, pp. 24-26)