Seyitgazi is a municipality and district of Eskişehir Province , Turkey . Its area is 1,578 km , and its population is 12,587 (2022). The central town of Seyitgazi lies at a distance of 43 km (27 mi) towards the south from the province capital of Eskişehir . The town was known formerly as Nakoleia .
7-415: Kırka is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Seyitgazi , Eskişehir Province , Turkey . Its population is 3,039 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation , it was a town ( belde ). Kırka is situated on the state highway D.665 in the plains of Central West Anatolia . Çatıörem dam reservoir is to the east of the town. The distance to Seyitgazi is 32 kilometres (20 mi) and to Eskişehir
14-405: A battle nearby in 740. The town was eventually renamed after Battal Gazi. From 1867 until 1922, Seyitgazi was part of Hüdavendigâr vilayet . A complex ( Turkish : külliye ) dedicated to Battal Gazi and containing his tomb, a mosque, a medrese , cells and ceremonial rooms for dervishes as well as charitable services for the community such as kitchens and a bakery were built in 1208 on
21-693: A hill overlooking the town by Ümmühan Hatun, wife of the Seljuk sultan Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev I and further extended in 1511 by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II . The shrine and the adjoining complex remain popular with local as well as foreign visitors. In August 2019, researchers headed by Prof. Murat Türkteki announced the discovery of two skeletons dating back about 5,000 years in the same sarcophagus in Early Bronze Age settlement Küllüoba. Excavators assumed that one of
28-464: A market center of the area. In 1972 it was declared as a seat of township. The major town revenue is mining industry. Turkey is the major boron producer of the world and one of the most important ores is at 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Kırka. After Boron products factory was opened in 1984, boron began to play a major role in town economy. Agriculture and cattle rising are among the other economic activities. Seyitgazi The town occupies
35-454: Is 74 kilometres (46 mi). There are Phrygian ruins around Kırka. But Kırka was founded in 1634 during Ottoman Empire era. Inıtially it was a temporary settlement of Turkmen nomads in the pasture. But some of these nomads decided to settle. According to tradition the founders of Kırka were forty lords, hence it was named Kırka ("forty lords" in Turkish is kırk ağa ). Kırka flourished as
42-564: The site of the Byzantine city of Nakoleia which is attested from Roman times. After the town was conquered by the Seljuk Turks, it was known as Kala'-i-Mashihya , the Christian Castle. During that time the old monastic centre dedicated to the archangel Michael was converted into a shrine to the 8th-century Muslim saint ( seyyid ) and warrior Battal Gazi , who allegedly fell in
49-540: The skeletons was a 13-year-old girl and other was a man in his late 30s. In August 2020, archaeologists headed by Prof. Murat Türktaki revealed a 5,000-year-old paint palette made of stone in the Seyitgazi district at the Küllüoba site. According to Türktaki, this palette was used for painting dishes. In March 2021, construction workers found a marble sarcophagus which is 1.5 meters long and 33 centimetres wide in
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