Beyşehir - TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi
M. Akif Erdoğru · Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi · 1992
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HistoryHistory of BeyşehirThe Beyşehir basin preserves a long sequence of settlement, water management and political change, from Neolithic mounds to the modern district.HistoryBeyşehirBeyşehir is a town and district in Konya province on the southeastern shore of Lake Beyşehir.AntiquityThe Beyşehir basin in antiquityAncient Beyşehir was a group of communities and routes around the lake, not a single city identical with the modern town.Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir under the Anatolian SeljuksThe Seljuk period brought a court landscape to the lake and laid foundations for the later medieval town.Medieval BeyşehirKubadabad PalaceKubadabad is the excavated thirteenth-century Seljuk palace complex on the southwest shore of Lake Beyşehir.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu Süleyman BeySeyfeddin Süleyman Bey founded the Eşrefoğulları beylik and made Beyşehir its centre.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu complex and İçerişehirThe mosque, market, bath, religious buildings and fortifications formed a medieval urban core in Beyşehir’s İçerişehir.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu Mosque endowmentThe vakfiye of Eşrefoğlu Süleyman Bey records resources assigned to the mosque and offers a view of medieval institutions.Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir BedestenThe bedesten is the covered market building of Beyşehir’s historic İçerişehir core.Medieval Beyşehirİsmail Ağa Medreseİsmail Ağa Medrese is a later medieval educational building beside Beyşehir’s Eşrefoğlu Mosque.Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir city walls and Kale KapısıSurviving fragments of Beyşehir’s medieval defences include the gate known as Kale Kapısı.Medieval BeyşehirSeyyid HârunSeyyid Hârun is a religious figure associated with the medieval foundation traditions of nearby Seydişehir.Ottoman periodBeyşehir in the Ottoman periodBeyşehir passed between regional powers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and came under lasting Ottoman rule after 1466.Ottoman periodPopulation of Ottoman BeyşehirHousehold registers, later censuses and migration records reveal change in the town and its wider district.Ottoman periodChechen and Ingush migrants in BeyşehirChechen and Ingush families settled in the Beyşehir district during late Ottoman migration, leaving records in neighbourhoods and gravestones.Regional placesSeydişehirSeydişehir is a neighbouring town south of Beyşehir, connected by ancient routes and medieval political history.Medieval BeyşehirHamidoğulları and BeyşehirThe Hamidoğulları held Beyşehir after the fall of the Eşrefoğulları, placing the lake town in a wider political contest across southwestern Anatolia.Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir on the Karamanid–Ottoman frontierFrom the late fourteenth to the mid fifteenth century, Beyşehir repeatedly changed hands in the struggle between the Karamanoğulları and the Ottomans.Medieval BeyşehirTimurtaş and the end of the EşrefoğullarıTimurtaş, also written Demirtaş, was an Ilkhanid governor whose 1326 campaign ended the Eşrefoğlu beylik in Beyşehir.