Kırşehir

This article covers the city. For the province, see Kırşehir (Province) .

Kırşehir
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City center with the statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Basic data
Province (il) :	Kırşehir
Coordinates :	39 ° 9 '  N , 34 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 8 '42 "  N , 34 ° 9' 39"  E
Height :	991  m
Residents :	144,364 (2019)
Telephone code :	(+90) 386
Postal code :	40 100
License plate :	40
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure :	14 Mahalle
Mayor :	Selahattin Ekicioğlu ( CHP )
Postal address :	Ahievran Mahallesi, Mehmet Ali Yapıcı Blv. No: 1 40100 Merkez / Kırşehir
Website:	www.kirsehir.bel.tr
Kırşehir County
Residents :	157,635 (2019)
Surface:	1,719 km²
Population density :	92 inhabitants per km²

Kırşehir (formerly also Kirschehir ) is a Turkish city ​​in the province of the same name in Kırşehir in Central Anatolia . Kırşehir is located about 156 km southeast of the capital Ankara .

geography

location

The provincial town of Kırşehir is roughly in the center of the province. The surrounding central district (Merkez) is surrounded by the Ilçes (districts) Kaman , Akpınar , Akçakent , Çiçekdağı , Boztepe and Mucur , starting clockwise in the west . In the south and southwest, where the river Kızılırmak , dammed for long stretches to the Hirfanlı reservoir , essentially forms the provincial border, it borders directly from east to west on the provinces of Nevşehir , Aksaray and Ankara .

The central district, which is directly subordinate to the Vali, has another Belediye (community) with Özbağ (3,635 inhabitants ). In addition, there are 53 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 203 residents. Çayağzı (1,079), Ulupınar (795), Karahıdır (618) and Toklümen (593) are the largest villages, 18 villages have more than 203 inhabitants.

Climate table

Kırşehir (1007 m)
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     39   5 -4     31   6th -4     33   11 0     48   17th 5     42   22nd 9     33   26th 13     8.1   30th 16     5.7   30th 16     12   26th 12     32   20th 7th     46   12 1     48   7th -2 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: State Meteorological Office of the Turkish Republic, normal period 1981-2010

Average Monthly Temperatures and Precipitation for Kırşehir (1007 m) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 4.6 6.1 11.3 16.9 21.7 26.1 29.8 30.1 26.1 19.7 12.2 6.5 O 17.6 Min. Temperature (° C) -4.0 -3.6 -0.1 4.8 8.8 12.7 15.9 16.1 11.5 6.8 1.2 -1.9 O 5.7 Temperature (° C) -0.1 0.9 5.3 10.7 15.3 19.7 23.2 23.2 18.6 12.7 6.1 1.8 O 11.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 38.7 31.4 33.1 47.8 42.4 33.0 8.1 5.7 12.4 31.7 45.8 48.4 Σ 378.5 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 2.9 4.0 5.3 6.3 8.2 10.1 11.2 10.7 9.1 6.7 4.8 2.9 O 6.9 Rainy days ( d ) 11.6 10.6 10.6 11.5 11.8 7.2 2.6 1.7 3.3 7.1 9.7 12.4 Σ 100.1 Source: State Meteorological Office of the Turkish Republic, normal period 1981-2010

population

The inhabitants of Kırşehir are predominantly Turks , with a long-established Kurdish minority having existed for about 200 years. As almost everywhere in Turkey, Kurdish harvest workers come to the region for seasonal work at harvest time . They mostly reside in tent camps near their workplaces. During this time they also often visit the city. Both Sunnis and Alevis live in Kırşehir .

Population development

The following table shows the comparative population level at the end of the year for the province, the central district and the city of Kırklareli as well as the respective share at the higher administrative level. The figures are based on the address-based population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007.

year	province	district		city
	absolutely	proportionally (%)	absolutely	proportionally (%)	absolutely
2018	241,868	63.47	153,511	90.63	139.134
2017	234,529	63.97	150.029	91.51	137.290
2016	229.975	62.62	144.006	90.91	130.915
2015	225,562	61.73	139,235	90.36	125,807
2014	222,707	60.33	134,367	89.69	120.508
2013	223,498	59.06	131.997	89.19	117,730
2012	221.209	58.23	128,806	88.69	114.244
2011	221.015	56.81	125,554	88.01	110,499
2010	221,876	55.91	124.046	87.57	108,628
2009	223.102	54.66	121,947	86.78	105,826
2008	222,735	53.16	118.412	85.58	101,333
2007	223.170	52.50	117.164	85.21	99,832

Census results

The following population information about the city, the district, the province and the country is available for the censuses:

region	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	2000
City (Şehir)	24,861	33.173	41,415	49,913	64,754	73,538	88.105
central circle (Merkez)	74,311	82,525	91,655	96,937	111,644	103,688	115.078
Province (İl)	196.836	214,932	232.853	240.497	260.156	256,862	253.239
Turkey	31,391,421	35.605.176	40,347,719	44,736,957	50,664,458	56.473.035	67,803,927

history

The beginnings of Kırşehir go back to the Hittites . In what is now Kırşehir Province, excavations revealed the settlements Hashöyük (3500–2000 BC) and Kaman-Kalehöyük (1700-600 BC), which are up to 5000 years old. In 1950, the ancient orientalist Helmuth Theodor Bossert investigated the Stadthüyük of Kırşehir. Based on ceramic finds and the extension of the hill, he concluded that it was an important Hittite city of the 2nd and 1st millennium BC. About twelve kilometers west of the city is the inscription stone Malkaya from the time of the Hittite Empire. In the urban area, architectural sculpture finds from ancient to Byzantine times were made, but what the city was called at that time is unknown. The presumed identification with Mocissus or Greek Mokissos , after the re-establishment of the city by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I (527-565) Justinianopolis , is now attributed to a ruin site near Viranşehir, 35 km south of Aksaray . The identification made instead with the Roman Aquae Saravenae is also claimed for a field of ruins near Terzili Hamam (today Sarıkaya ) in the Yozgat province . In 1071 the control of the Byzantine Empire over Inner Anatolia ended and Kırşehir came under the rule of Turkish rulers. It was given the name Kır Şehri (steppe town) because of its location in the barren steppe , from which the current name Kırşehir developed.

Until the conquest of Danishmends -Emirats by Rumseldschuken supremacy over Kırşehir was controversial and alternating between these two Turkish dynasties. After the end of the Rumeljuk Empire in 1307, the city came under the direct rule of the Mongolian Ilkhan , who maintained a mint there. From the middle of the 13th to the middle of the 14th century, the city was an important cultural center in Anatolia. After the end of the Ilchanate in 1335, the city came under the rule of changing Turkish dynasties. After Kırşehir under Sultan Bayezit I came under the rule of the Ottomans for the first time until the Battle of Ankara in 1402, the city was finally incorporated into the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Selim I.

Kırşehir was important in the Ottoman Empire as the burial place of Ahi Evran , a Muslim saint of the Rumeljuk period and patron of the corporations of tanners and other leather craftsmen, such as saddlers and shoemakers. Attached to the mausoleum was a dervish- tekke whose head, the Ahi Baba , had succeeded in gaining control over most of the Muslim corporations of tanners and other leatherworkers. In 1908 the corporations were abolished and the Tekke came to an end in 1925. The name Ahi Evran was resumed by the Ahi Evran University founded in 2006 in Kırşehir.

After the reorganization of the provinces in the 19th century and the dissolution of the Eyâlet Anadolu, Kırşehir was the center of a sanjak that was attached to the Eyâlet / Vilâyet Ankara or Bozok. The main town of this province alternated between Ankara and Yozgat , whose territory bore the old name Bozok . In 1921, after the territorial losses in the Tripoli War , the Balkan Wars and the First World War, the administrative structure of the Turkish state was tightened: the previous vilayets ceased to exist and the sandjaks were upgraded to vilayets. Kırşehir thus became the administrative center of an independent province. Gazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk visited the city twice (1921 and 1931).

From the break of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the German Reich in August 1944 until 1946, Kırşehir was one of the three Anatolian cities (next to Çorum and Yozgat ) as an internment place for German, Austrian and Czech citizens who did not want to return to the German Reich or could have been banished. Those confessed there were able to move freely within the city and its surroundings and organize their daily routine as they saw fit.

One of them, Fritz Baade , worked with a geologist to get the mineral spring, which had been known since ancient times, but then almost dried up, back to work. This made Kırşehir a health resort. After the war he brought a young craftsman from Kırşehir to Germany for training and thus laid the foundation for the processing of gemstones that is widespread throughout the country today. The city awarded him honorary citizenship in 1959.

Sports

Kırşehirspor logo

With the soccer club Kırşehirspor, Kırşehir has had a soccer team since the 1970s, which mainly represented the city and region in the third highest Turkish league, today's TFF 2. Lig . The club had its most successful time in the years 1982-1987, in which they twice as champions of the 2nd Lig made promotion to the second highest Turkish league, today's TFF 1st Lig . In the summer of 2011, the club rose from the fourth-rate and the lowest Turkish professional league, the TFF 3rd Lig , and has since played in the regional amateur league, which in turn corresponds to the fifth-highest Turkish league.

Twin cities

• Olovo , Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Remscheid , Federal Republic of Germany

additional

The historic ruins of the Üçayak Kilisesi church are not far from the town .

Personalities

• Neşet Ertaş (1938–2012), singer
• Uğur Mumcu (1942–1993), writer and journalist
• Nezaket Ekici (* 1970), performance artist
• Ismail Altunsaray (* 1980), singer
• Deniz Evin (born 1983), actor
• Yılmaz Köksal (1939–2015), actor

literature

• Walter Ruben : Kırşehir. An ancient small town in Inner Anatolia. Edited by Gerhard Ruben. (= Working materials on the Orient, vol. 13). Würzburg, Ergon 2003. ISBN 3-89913-273-4

Web links

Commons : Kırşehir  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the province

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on April 13, 2020
2. ↑ Central Dissemination System / Merkezi Dağıtım Sistemi (MEDAS) of the TÜIK , accessed on July 5, 2019
3. ↑ Genel Nüfus Sayımları (census results 1965 to 2000) , accessed July 5, 2019
4. ↑ H. Th. Bossert: The HH inscription from Malkaya In: Orientalia Nova Series Vol. 24 No. 4 (1958) p. 326
5. ↑ Semavi Eyice: Kırşehir'de Üç-Ayak adındaki yapı kalıntısında araştırmalar investigations in the "Üç-Ayak" ruined site near Kırşehir. In: Anadolu Araştırmaları. 17, No. 2 2004, pp. 125-168 ( online ), p. 142
6. ^ Albrecht Berger: Viranşehir (Mokisos), a Byzantine city in Cappadocia. In: Istanbul communications. 48 1998, pp. 349-429
7. ↑ Semavi Eyice: Kırşehir'de Üç-Ayak adındaki yapı kalıntısında araştırmalar investigations in the "Üç-Ayak" ruined site near Kırşehir. In: Anadolu Araştırmaları. 17, No. 2 2004, pp. 125–168 ( Online ), p. 142, footnote 46
8. ↑ Anatolic index: Sarıkaya
9. ↑ Kurt Bittel in: Richard C. Haines: The baths of Terzili Hamam. In: Istanbul communications. 35 1985, pp. 227-235, p. 230
10. ↑ January 12, 1983, Milliyet - Türkiye İller Ansiklopedisi, p. 269: "Kırşehir"
11. ↑ ^{a b} F. Taeschner, Art. Kir sh ehir in Encyclopaedia of Islam , New Edition, Volume 5 KHE-MAHI, Leiden 1986
12. ^ F. Taeschner, Artt. A kh ī Ewrān and A kh ī Baba in Encyclopaedia of Islam , New Edition, Volume 1 AB, Leiden 1960
13. ↑ P. Siegfried Pruscinsky CM (author) Exiled to Anatolia: Records 1944-1945 , Verlag Alt-Mödingen 2015, ISBN 978-3902405081
14. ↑ Fritz Baade in: Der Spiegel, January 21, 1959. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
15. ↑ Općina Olovo se pobratimila s turskom općinom Kirsehir (Bosnian)
16. ^ City of Remscheid - twin cities. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .