Ereğli (Konya)

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Basic data
Province (il) : Konya
Coordinates : 37 ° 31 '  N , 34 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 30 '35 "  N , 34 ° 2' 58"  E
Height : 1020  m
Residents : 139,131 (2014)
Telephone code : (+90) 332
Postal code : 42 xxx
License plate : 42
Structure and administration (as of 2017)
Mayor : Özkan Özgüven ( AKP )
Website:
Ereğli County
Residents : 139,131 (2014)
Surface: 2,560 km²
Population density : 54 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam : Ömer Lütfi Yaran
Website (Kaymakam):
Template: Infobox location in Turkey / maintenance / district

Ereğli is a Turkish city ​​in Konya Province . The city with its 139,000 inhabitants (as of 2014) is located at the foot of the Taurus Mountains at approx. 1020 m. Since a municipal reform in 2014, the district has been identical to the district town in terms of area and population.

history

Ereğli is possibly identical to the Hittite Ḫupišna, who was a local cult center of the goddess Ḫuwaššanna . In the early Iron Age , Ḫupišna was a small Neo-Hittite state in the land of Tabal . Two kings of Ḫupišna are known from Assyrian sources: Puḫamme (around 837 BC) and U (i) rimme (around 738 BC).

In Hellenistic and especially Roman times, the city was an important place under the name Herakleia Kybistra at the point where the road to the Cilician Gate leads into the mountains. It lay on the usual military routes and was therefore plundered more than once (including 806 and 832) by the Arab invaders of Asia Minor . In 806 the Abbasid caliph Hārūn ar-Rashīd occupied the city for a short time. To commemorate this victory, he had a victory monument erected near the Syrian city of ar-Raqqa , to which he named Heraqla .

In Byzantine times the city belonged to Cappadocia . For a short time it belonged as Kybistra to the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia . In the 11th century the city was occupied by the Seljuks , before it was temporarily conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century ; since 1466 it belonged to the Ottoman Empire . In August 1097 the Crusader army of the First Crusade defeated the united troops of the Danish Mendids and the Emir of Cappadocia on the way to Antioch near Heraclea.

Kybistra is a titular bishopric of the Catholic Church.

Worth seeing

About twelve kilometers southeast of Ereğli is the İvriz rock relief , the best preserved Hittite relief in Turkey.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 9, 2015 on WebCite ), accessed December 9, 2015
  2. ^ Trevor Bryce: The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms; A Political and Military History. Oxford, New York 2012, pp. 153, 271.
  3. ^ Christian Marek, Peter Frei: History of Asia Minor in antiquity. Munich 2010, p. 802.
  4. ↑ Stefan Heidemann: The story of ar-Raqqa and ar Rāfiqa - an overview. In: Stefan Heidemann, Andrea Becker (Ed.): The Islamic City. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2003, p. 35

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