History of Aksaray Province

thumb|300px|The Beylik of Karaman (orange) in 1300 The Karamanids ( or ), also known as the Emirate of Karaman and Beylik of Karaman (), was a Turkish Anatolian beylik (principality) of Salur tribe origin, descended from Oghuz Turks, centered in South-Central Anatolia around the present-day Karaman Province. From the mid 14th century until its fall in 1487, the Karamanid dynasty was one of the most powerful beyliks in Anatolia. Category:states and territories disestablished in the 1480s

Ottoman province

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Iranian kingdom in Asia Minor (331 BC-17 AD)

Ottoman province

Purushanda (also variously Puruskhanda, Purushhattum, Purushhatum or Burushattum) was an Anatolian kingdom of the early second millennium prior to the common era. It was conquered by the Hittites circa 1700 BC. The name disappears from history soon thereafter.

ancient city of Cappadocia in modern-day Turkey

ruined historic church in the Güzelyurt district of Aksaray Province, Turkey

caravanserai in Turkey

caravanserai in Aksaray, Turkey

thumb|right|A box made from a piece of ivory and decorated with lapis lazuli, bronze and iron, found at Acemhöyük. thumb|320px|Central Anatolia during the period of the kārum Acemhöyük is an archaeological site in Turkey. The tell is located near the village of Yeşilova in Merkez district, Aksaray Province. The Bronze Age name for the place was probably Purušḫanda/Purušḫattum or . The site was important during the Early Bronze Age as part of the Anatolian Trade Network and the Middle Bronze Age as a colony in the Assyrian Trade Network, with a trading post called Karum.

ancient fortress site in Turkey