Karamanlı

Karamanlı

Karamanli is a district of Burdur province.

It is understood from the historical traces in the region that Karamanlı district is a very old settlement. Karamanlı is located on the skirts of Ardıçlıtepe and dominates the Karamanlı plain. It is known that the region, which bears traces of settlement from the Near Stone Age (Neolithic Age), was under the rule of Persians, Ethiopians and Greeks between 800-500 BC. In the years following the entry of the Turkish sovereign Alparslan into Anatolia with the Battle of Malazgirt in 1071, the Turks completely dominated the region and the region has come to the present day. With the entry of Turks into Anatolia, the first regular administration in the region was established by the Anatolian Seljuk State and in the 1282s, it was under the administration of the Karamanoğulları principality extending from Hatay to Muğla. Karamanoglu Mehmet Bey was poisoned to death in Gölhisar, which makes it certain that Karamanli was under the rule of the principality in those years.

In the period of the rise of the Ottoman Empire, in 1469-1470, Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror abolished the Karamanoğulları Principality, and in order to prevent the Karamanoğulları, who caused trouble to the Ottoman Empire many times at different times, from reuniting and becoming trouble again, some of the tribes settled in places called Eskiköy, Türkmen, Gebice, Gedikyap and Ferizli around Karamanlı, and later gathered in the current location of Karamanlı. Karamanoğlu, who came here first, settled at the head of Kocapınar at the foot of Ardıçlı Hill, and Caferoğlu, who came second, settled at the head of Karaağaçlı Pınar in the place called Yediurgan. The names of the people who first settled here live today as the names of the neighborhoods of this region. According to the information obtained from the Konya Vilayeti Salnamesi in 1871 in the letter of Historian Prof. Tuncer Baykara dated March 27, 1973, Karamanlı was a settlement of 410 households in those years. In addition, some other settlements in the region were recorded as Tefenni 158, Gebrem 70, Sazak 23 and Ece 20 households.