A timeline of place
Explore the history of this area in the place guides.
THE BEYŞEHİR JOURNAL
A heritage, still living.
What wood, stone, water and people have to tell.
A world held by wood
A closer look at architecture
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The memory of the market
Place and everyday life
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Water and City: Beyşehir’s Waterfront History
From İçerişehir to Taş Köprü, neighbourhoods to irrigation
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Traces of a palace in tile
Archaeology and the museum
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The changing rhythm of the lake
Nature and season
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Reading stone
Looking at Hittite heritage
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Hittite Water and Mountain Cult
Cosmological iconography of sacred springs
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Ares and Lukyanos the Cavalier
Horsemanship and warrior culture in Pisidia
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Mystery of Subterranean Rivers
Waterway beneath the Taurus to the Mediterranean
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Life on the Lake Islands
History of Mada, Kız Kalesi and Hacıâkif islands
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Artisans of Huğlu and Üzümlü
From village blacksmiths to global industry
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Eşrefoğlu Seljuk Carpets
13th-century Ghiordes knots and Kufic borders
Read the storyErbaba Höyük & Neolithic Stone Architecture
An 8,000-year-old farming settlement in the Lakes Region
Read the storyGiant on the Slope: The Fasıllar Monolith
The Hittite Storm God carved into a 70-ton basalt block
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Taşlıpınar Ares Relief & Classical Votives
A Roman rock sanctuary woven into village architecture
Read the storyThe Eşrefoğlu Minbar & Tile-Mosaic Mihrab
The pinnacle of kündekâri joinery and faience in the Beylik era
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Taş Madrasah & Ilkhanid Stone Cenotaphs
Persian and Arabic epigraphy from 1369 under Mongol rule
Read the storyHistoric Bada Bridge & Irrigation Channels
The 80-metre stone arches known locally as the German Bridge
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Yeşildağ Stork Colonies & Wild Horses
Nests in ancient junipers and free-roaming herds
Read the storyBeyşehir in Travelers’ Accounts
Accounts of lake and town from Ibn Battuta to Gertrude Bell
Read the storyChechens and Ingush in Beyşehir: Hamidiye’s Memory
Building a new neighbourhood in the early 1900s
Read the storyThe WWII Beyşehir Internment Camp
An unusual lakeside internment during 1944–1945
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Mada Island: Cossacks, Migration and Lake Life
The communities behind the names Kazak and Kumluca
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