Gölhisar
Sign in to saveGölhisar (literal translation: "lake castle") is a town in Burdur Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Gölhisar District. Its population is 16,118 (2021).
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Gölhisar
- Turkey place.province
- Burdur
- Turkey place.district
- Gölhisar
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- İbrahim Sertbaş
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 1008
- Turkey place.population_total
- 23626
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2023
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 15400
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Burdur Province
- Population
- 22519
- Elevation
- 945
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Official website
- www.golhisar.bel.tr
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- urban population
- 16118
- rural population
- 6946
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Gölhisar (literal translation: "lake castle") is a town in Burdur Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Gölhisar District. Its population is 16,118 (2021).
==History== During antiquity Golhisar was site of an ancient city called Kibyra, the capital of a tetrapolis comprising Kibyra itself, Bubon, Balbura and Inuanda, which according to Herodotus were founded by the Pisidians around 1000BC, Roman ruins including a 180 meter wide theater can be still seen. In the Byzantine era the town was the seat of a Christian Bishopric.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gölhisar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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