Honaz

Honaz is a town and a locale of Denizli Province in the Aegean Region. It covers a region of 504 km2. The populace was 9,830 and 30,530. Honaz is around 20 km east of the city of Denizli on the slants of the heap of a similar name – Mount Honaz. The mountain is the most noteworthy top in Turkey's Aegean Region. Just north of Honaz will be Honaz Stream, known in antiquated occasions as the Lycus. In the Byzantine time frame its name was Chonai.

The city and a church district of Chonai was built up at the area of the present Honaz township by the Byzantines amid the Arab attacks of the seventh century. Being further up the mountain the area was less demanding to safeguard. Following a very long time of Byzantine standard the town was first caught by the Seljuk Turks in 1070, however was then reconquered amid the Komnenian time frame. Amid the rule of Manuel I Komnenos it succeeded as a boondocks town, an exchanging and journey setting for the two Christians and Muslims.

The Byzantine writer Niketas Choniates was a local of the city. Chonai was looted twice by neighborhood autonomous warlords upheld by the Turks. It at long last tumbled to the Seljuks soon subsequently. Kaykhusraw I guaranteed to return it to the Byzantines, yet in perspective of the fall of majestic power caused by the Fourth Crusade and the Latin victory of Constantinople he chose rather to allot it to his dad in-law, the Byzantine maverick Manuel Maurozomes.