Aksehir

Aksehir is a town and locale of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia district of Turkey. As indicated by 2000 enumeration, populace of the locale is 114,918 of which 63,000 live in the town of Aksehir. The town was known in the Roman and Byzantine realms as Philomelium or Philomelion respectively. The town is arranged at the edge of a rich plain, on the north side of the Sultan Dagh.

The Sultan Mountains, otherwise called Sultan Dagh range or Sultan Dag, is a short mountain go on the western edge of the Anatolian Plateau, Turkey with most astounding rise of 1,980 m. The town of Sultandagı is their namesake. They are comprised of changeable rocks dating from the Lower Cambrian to the Carboniferous period. West inclines of Sultan Mountains are a piece of the Lake Beysehir waste bowl.

Philomelion was most likely a Pergamenian establishment on the incomparable Graeco-Roman Highway from Ephesus toward the east, and to its townsmen the Smyrniotes composed the letter that portrays the affliction of Polycarp. Cicero, on his approach to Cilicia, dated a portion of his surviving correspondence there; and the place had a significant impact in the wilderness wars between the Byzantine rulers and the Sultanate of Rum. It turned into a critical Seljuk town, and late in the fourteenth century go into Ottoman hands. There Bayezit I of the Ottoman Empire is said by Ali of Yezd to have passed on after his annihilation at the Battle of Ankara.