Eregli

Eregli is a town and area of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia district of Turkey. As per 2009 evaluation, the number of inhabitants in the area is 135,008 of which 95,056 live in the town of Eregli. Heraclea Cybistra under the name Cybistra, had some significance in Hellenistic occasions inferable from its situation close to the point where the way to the Gulek Pass enters the slopes. It lay in the method for armed forces and was more than once sacked by the Arab intruders of Asia Minor.

During the Crusade of 1101 it was the scene of a fizzled clash of 15,000 men driven by William II, Count of Nevers, which left the Crusaders frail on the way to Antioch. It wound up Turkish in the eleventh century. Eregli is additionally known for being the primary capital of the Karaman Beylik established by Nure Sufi Bey. The Karaman state was prestigious for being a predictable aggravation to Ottoman predominance in Anatolia, being one of only a handful couple of Anatolian beyliks to hold power well past Fatih Sultan Mehmet's triumph of Istanbul.

It was additionally the main political element in Anatolia to announce Turkish as an official dialect. In 1553, upon come back from a crusade in Persia, Suleiman the Magnificent had his child, Sehzade Mustafa, executed in the Eregli valley where the Ottoman armed force was positioned. Present day Eregli had developed from an extensive town to a town since the railroad achieved it from Konya and Karaman in 1904; and it has now lodgings and flourishing organizations.