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HISTORY OF BEYPAZARI

History

Houses

Going behind a hill, one hour away from Ankara, you will see a nice country with its white houses surrounded with greenness. We start to watch this beautiful city with a strange feeling and appreciation covering us like going back to the past. Here is Beypazarı…

Tourism

Economy

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On this lands, we can see cultural remainings of Hitits, Frigs, Galats, Romans, Byzantiums, Seljuks and Ottomans. Beypazarı was on the way connecting Istanbul to Bagdat during Roman times and it was named as “Lagania” at those times. It was the Regional Headquarter during Byzantium times.

Then…Turks, under the command of Soultan Alparslan, came to Anatolia. So Beypazarı also met with the first Turkish warriors and became their country. The most important one was the Kayı Tribe which will govern the whole world, afterwards. The grave of Gunduzalp, grandfather of Osman Bey during Seljuks time , is in Beypazarı. Beypazarı became , a commercial center on the way of Istanbul-Bağdat, one of the warrior centers depending on the Hüdavendigar (Bursa) Province, following the conquest of Ankara by Orhan Bey the horse supported soldier chief, due to and the dense commercial life it was named as BEG BAZARI (means that place where chiefs trade).

Today, Beypazarı became a nice district of Ankara with its central population of 40 000 people, its 3 towns (Karaşar, Uruş, Kırbaşı) and 64 villages.