Isparta (province)

Isparta
Province number:	32
Counties
Basic data
Coordinates:	37 ° 57 ' N , 30 ° 58' E Coordinates: 37 ° 57 ' N , 30 ° 58' E
Provincial capital:	Isparta
Region:	Mediterranean region
Surface:	8,946 km²
Population:	441,412 (2016)
Population density:	49 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor:	Ömer Seymenoğlu
Seats in Parliament:	4th
Structural
Telephone code:	0246
Features :	32
Website
	www.isparta.gov.tr (Turkish)

Isparta is a province of Turkey and is located in the northwestern part of the Mediterranean region . The adjacent provinces are (starting in the north and going clockwise) Afyonkarahisar , Konya , Burdur and Antalya . The province of Isparta ranks 45th in the ranking of the most populous provinces. The provincial capital is Isparta .

Isparta is known for its roses, rose products and hand-knotted carpets. The province is also known for its apples, sour cherries and grapes.

In addition to the 482 km² Eğirdir Gölü , the second largest freshwater lake in Turkey, there are many other freshwater lakes. These include Gölcük Gölü , Kovada Gölü , Beyşehir Gölü and Burdur Gölü .

history

The area of today's Isparta province was the core area of the principality (Turkish: Beylik ) of the Hamidoğulları , also called Hamididen , in the 14th century . The last of the Hamidoğulları dynasty, Hamitoğlu Kemaleddin Hüseyin Bey, sold his principality to the Ottoman Sultan Murad I for 80,000 gold pieces in 1374 (other sources: 1381) and with Hüseyin's death in 1390 the city fell to the Ottoman Empire and was named Sandschak Hamid Part of the Beylerbey Anatolia which was administered from Kütahya . In 1846, following an administrative reform in the Ottoman Empire, the Konya Province (Turkish: Konya Vilayet ) was established, to which the Sanjak Hamid was assigned. At that time the sanjak consisted of the six districts Hamid, Burdur , Uluborlu , Havza-ı Karaağaç, Gölhisar-Kemire- Tefenni and Barla-Pavlu-Ağros- Eğirdir . According to the provincial ordinance of 1877, the area around Burdur with Gölhisar-Kemire-Tefenni was separated from Hamid as its own sanjak. To compensate for this, the Karaağaç, Hoyran and Yalvaç districts came from Konya to Hamid Province, with the Hoyran district being dissolved and merged with Yalvaç. Yalvaç is still the largest district in the province. Havza-ı Karaağaç districts were renamed to Karaağaç and Barla-Pavlu-Ağros-Eğirdir to Eğirdir. In 1914 there were only five districts left: Hamid, Eğirdir, Şarkikaraağaç , Uluborlu and Yalvaç.

At the beginning of World War I in 1914, all the Armenians in the Sanjak were forcibly recruited to supposedly work in road construction for the army, and the women and children were deported to the east. Nothing is known about their fate; they were probably victims of the Armenian genocide in 1915.

After the end of the First World War, the Sanjak Hamid was slammed under the Treaty of Sèvres of the Italian zone. Italian troops marched towards Burdur and reached Hamidabad (Isparta) on June 28, 1919. A Turkish uprising in the city that lasted until August 1919 led to the withdrawal of Italian troops to Antalya . In 1923 the Greek population of the province was expelled under the Treaty of Lausanne . At the same time, Turks settled again and were driven out of Bulgaria. With the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923, the country was restructured and from the Sanjak Hamid Konya Province, the province was (Turkish: İl ) Isparta with the districts (Turkish: İlçe ) Isparta Eğirdir, Şarkikaraağaç, Uluborlu and Yalvaç. In 1926, Atabay County was formed from the north of Isparta County . In 1938, almost a third of the district of Eğirdir, almost the entire south with the city of Cebel, was separated and became a separate district. The city and district were renamed Sütçuler . The southwestern part of Uluborlu became a separate district in 1948 as Keçiborlu . Uluborlu was made smaller again in 1952 when the eastern part was separated and with Senirkent a separate district was created. In 1954, Gelendost County was formed from the western part of Şarkikaraağaç .

In 1987 the Bucak Aksu was separated from Eğirdir and became its own circle. The district of Gönen was created in 1990 from the rural northern part of Isparta. The last change of territory in the province happened in 1991 when the south of the Şarkikaraağaç district, which was a separate Bucak, was raised to a separate district as Yenişarbademli . Yenişarbademli is the youngest and smallest district in the province.

Administrative division

The province is divided into 13 districts ( İlçe ):

district	Area ¹ (km²)	Population (2018) ²		Number of Units			Density (Ew / km²)	urban share (in%)	Sex ratio ³	Founding date ^4.5
district	Area ¹ (km²)	District ( İlçe )	Administrative headquarters (Merkez)	Municipalities (Belediye)	City quarter (Mahalle)	Villages (Köy)	Density (Ew / km²)	urban share (in%)	Sex ratio ³	Founding date ^4.5
Aksu	544	4,533	1,943	1	9	13	8.3	42.86	981	1987
Atabey	223	5,477	4,004	1	9	5	24.6	73.11	1017	1926
Egirdir	1,315	32,436	17,344	2	28	29	24.7	60.32	960
Gelendost	610	15,414	5,291	1	10	13	25.3	34.33	1032	1954
Gönen	285	7,364	3,300	2	10	5	25.8	73.61	991	1990
Isparta Merkez	773	258.375	236,749	3	50	20th	334.3	94.03	1011
Keçiborlu	494	14,383	7,037	2	16	14th	29.1	65.13	967	1948
Senirkent	521	11,811	5,080	2	15th	7th	22.7	75.39	1051	1952
Sütçuler	1,235	10,707	2,574	1	7th	30th	8.7	24.04	976	1938
Şarkikaraağaç	1,068	25,578	10,018	3	16	26th	24.0	58.79	1026
Uluborlu	240	6,388	5,316	1	11	4th	26.6	83.22	1008
Yalvaç	1,402	46,646	21,363	2	32	37	33.3	49.46	1036
Yenişarbademli	237	2,300	2,004	1	4th	1	9.7	87.13	974	1991
PROVINCE OF Isparta	8,946	441.412		22nd	217	204	49.3	78.26	1009

Sources
¹ Area 2014
² Population update on December 31, 2018
³ Gender ratio : number of women per 1000 men (calculated)
⁴ PDF file of the Ministry of the Interior
⁵ districts that were only formed after the establishment of Turkey (1923).

population

Results of the population extrapolation

The following table shows the annual population development at the end of the year after updating by the addressable population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007. In addition, the population growth rate and the sex ratio (ie number of women per 1000 men) are listed. The 2011 census identified 412,039 inhabitants, over 100,000 more than in the 2000 census.

year	Population at the end of the year			Population growth rate (in%)	Gender ratio (women per 1000 men)	Rank (among 81 provinces)
year	total	male	Female	Population growth rate (in%)	Gender ratio (women per 1000 men)	Rank (among 81 provinces)
2018	441.412	219,681	221.731	1.75	1009	45
2017	433.830	218.617	215.213	1.52	984	45
2016	427,324	212,720	214.604	1.32	1009	45
2015	421,766	210.152	211,614	0.71	1007	45
2014	418.780	208,837	209.943	0.24	1005	46
2013	417,774	208.146	209,628	0.27	1007	46
2012	416,663	207,658	209.005	1.32	1006	46
2011	411.245	205.423	205.822	−8.27	1002	47
2010	448.298	242,472	205,826	6.54	849	44
2009	420,796	214,788	206.008	3.27	959	46
2008	407.463	204.080	203,383	−2.95	997	46
2007	419.845	218.146	201,699	-	925	44
2000	513,681	270,782	242,899		897	42

Census results

The following tables show the population of the province of Isparta documented in the 14 censuses .
The values in the table on the left are taken from e-books (from the original documents), the values in the table on the right come from the data query of the Turkish statistical institute TÜIK - available on this website:

year	population		rank
year	province	Turkey	rank
1927	144,437	13,648,270	44
1935	166,441	16.158.018	47
1940	171,751	17,820,950	49
1945	172,543	18,790,174	48
1950	186,316	20,947,188	49
1955	212.080	24,064,763	51
1960	242,352	27,754,820	50

year	population		rank
year	province	Turkey	rank
1965	266.240	31,391,421	49
1970	300,029	35.605.176	50
1975	322,685	40,347,719	50
1980	350.116	44,736,957	50
1985	382,844	50,664,458	49
1990	434.771	56.473.035	44
2000	513,681	67,803,927	42

Number of provinces in relation to the census years:

1927, 1940 to 1950: 63 provinces
1935: 57 provinces
1955: 67 provinces
1960 to 1985: 73 provinces
1990: 73 provinces
2000: 81 provinces

Attractions

The landscape of the province is shaped by the Anatolian Lake District. In terms of cultural epochs, the Hamidoğulları period is particularly influential.

nature

The national parks (Turkish: milli park )

Kovada Gölü (Turkish: Kovada Gölü Milli Parkı , German: Kovada-See ) in the districts of Sütçüler and Eğirdir.
Kızıldağ (Turkish: Kızıldağ Milli Parkı ) in the Yenişarbademli district, which stretches 25 km along the west bank of Lake Beyşehir.

They are also particularly worth seeing

The Eğirdir Lake , the northern part of which is called Hoyran Lake (Turkish: Hoyran Gölü ).

The Gölcük Gölü (German: Gölcük-See ), a crater lake on the Akdag Mountains at an altitude of 1,300 m, in the southwest of the city of Isparta.

The Yazılı Kanyon Nature Park (Turkish: Yazılı Kanyon Tabiat Parkı ), a canyon landscape with a depth of up to 400 m in the southeast of Sütçuler.

The Yaka Kanyonu, a gorge south of Yakaköy in Yenişarbademli County.

The lavender fields of Kuyucak.

The mountain Dedegöl (also: Dipoyraz) near Yenişarbademli is with 2,980 m height (according to Turkish measurements 2,998 m) the highest mountain in the province; inside there is a 16 km long cave system.

The Pınargözü Mağarası, a stalactite cave system in Dipoyraz near Yaka, Aksu district.

The Zindan Mağarası (German: Kerker-Höhle ), a stalactite cave north of Aksu with a Greek spring sanctuary.

Culture

The most important ancient ruin site is Antioch in Pisidia ( Greek Αντιόχεια τὴς Πισιδίας ) near Yalvaç. The ruins of the Greco-Roman city Konana ( Greek Κωνάνα ) in Pisidia (also: Comana, Conana, Conan) can be found near Gönen . The remains of the Greco-Roman city of Adada ( Greek Ἄδαδα ) are located near the village of Sağrak in the Sütçuler district.

The castle ruins in Eğirdir and Ulurborlu date from Byzantine times.

In the Seljuk era originated among other things

the caravanserais Eğirdir-Han in Eğirdir and Ertokuş Han near Yeşilköy in Gelendost County, both from the early 13th century.
The Ertokus Madrasa in Atabey, a Koran school, built in the early 13th century
in Eğirdir the oldest parts of the Taş Medrese , a Koran school from 1238.
The hamam in Gönen, built at the beginning of the 13th century.
The Kutlu Bey Cami , also: Ulu Cami (German: large mosque ) in Isparta; a mosque from 1299; Remodeling under Kutlu Bey in 1417.
The Sefer Ağa Mosque from the 13th century in Sütçuler.
The Alaadin Mosque in Uluborlu from 1231.
The Balta Bey Hamam (also: Muhtesip Hamami ), a bath house, built in 1180 in Uluborlu.

At the time of the Hamidoğulları emerged among other things

the Taş Medrese (also: Dündar Bey Madrasa ) in Eğirdir. Feleküddin Dündar had it expanded in 1301 from the stones of the former Eğirdir-Hans . It is the historically most valuable building from the Hamidoğulları era.
The Ulu Cami (German: Great Mosque ) in Eğirdir from 1327.
The Hızır-Bey Mosque in Isparta. It was built together with the Hızır Bey Hamam in 1327/28 under Hızır Bey, the hammam is now in ruins. The mosque was destroyed in the great earthquake in Isparta in 1888 and rebuilt after the quake.
The Fatih Sultan Mosque from the end of the 13th century in Şarkikaraağaç.
The 13th century Devlethan Mosque in Yalvaç.
The Muhittin Fountain and the Arapçık Fountain in Uluborlu. They were built between 1300 and 1324, as was the Efendi Sultan Mosque.

From the Ottoman period are u. a. the following buildings are worth seeing:

the early Ottoman Yokuşbaşı Mosque in Barla, 15th century.
The Afşar mosque in Gelendost from the end of the 14th century.
The Firdevs-Bey-Cami (also: Firdevs Paşa Camii , Mimar Sinan Camii ); a mosque from 1561. It and the neighboring Bedesten (German: market hall) are attributed to the architect Sinan . Badly damaged by earthquake in 1914, then renovated.
The Merkez Cami from 1692 and the Sinan Bey Camii from the 17th century, two mosques in Keçiborlu.

Personalities

Ramazan Avcı , murdered by neo-Nazis in Hamburg, born in Gönen and buried after his death
Süleyman Demirel , former state and prime minister
Mustafa Doğan , footballer