Ulukisla

Ulukisla is a metropolis and district of Nigde Province within the Central Anatolia vicinity of Turkey. It covers an area of 1,502 km², and the altitude is 1,427 m. Population is 22,728 of which 5,594 stay within the town of Ulukisla. The metropolis of Ulukisla lies in a valley between the Medetsiz and Bolkar levels of the Taurus Mountains, in the course of history an essential crossing from the Mediterranean to the plains of Konya and different parts of principal Anatolia.

This is a mountainous district and minerals together with gold, silver, lead, coal and limestone were mined right here over the centuries. The weather is dry and the flora regular of the dry steppes of vital Anatolia, summers are warm and dry, winters are bloodless and it snows. Wheat is grown within the valley. There are burial mounds höyük and different symptoms of profession going back to the Hittites and even in advance.

The vicinity was later occupied by means of Phrygians, and Romans. The tomb of Faustina the Younger, spouse of Emperor Marcus Aurelius turned into observed within the village of Toraman, and the baths of Ciftehan among their buyers Cleopatra. The Byzantines had armies primarily based here, and then Ulukisla remained an critical city within the time of the Ottoman Empire.