Beysehir

Beysehir is a vast town and area of Konya Province in the Akdeniz locale of Turkey. The town is situated on the southeastern shore of Lake Beysehir and is set apart toward the west and the southwest by the lofty lines and woodlands of the Taurus Mountains, while a ripe plain, an expansion of the lake zone, stretches out the southeastern way. As indicated by 2000 evaluation, the number of inhabitants in the region is 118,144 of which 41,312 live in the town of Beysehir.

The Hittite landmark arranged in Beysehir's depending area of Eflatunpinar, at a short separation toward the upper east from the town, demonstrates that the Hittite Empire had come to the extent the district, checking truth be told, in the light of present learning, the points of confinement of their expansion toward the southwest. Proof calls attention to that a prior settlement, maybe going back to the Neolithic Age, was likewise situated in Eflatunpınar. Another essential early settlement was situated in Erbaba Hoyuk, arranged 10 km toward the southwest of Beysehir, and which was investigated by the Canadian archeologists Jacques and Louise Alpes Bordaz during the 1970s, prompting finds from three neolithic building layers.

The Beysehir district relates to traditional artifact's Pisidia. At the area of the town itself there was more then likely a Greek city, which in one view was presumably named Karallia, which was one of the two urban focuses that encompassed the lake at the time, and in Roman occasions was known as Claudiocaesare, and Mistheia in Byzantine occasions.