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The history of Kırşehir dates back to the Hittites. During the period of the Hittites, the basin of Kırşehir was known as the country of "Ahiyuva". This basin also took the name Cappadocia at the time of the Romans and Byzantines.
Kırşehir news was once known as Parnassos or Mokissos for the Greeks. The Romans called the city Macissus, and after the city was rebuilt by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527-565), it was renamed Justinianopolis. This name was retained until the end of Byzantine rule. The Turks took the city in 1071 and bestowed the current name. In Turkish, "Kır Şehri" means "steppe city" or "prairie city". It became the chief town of a sanjak in the Ottoman vilayet of Angora, which possessed 8000 inhabitants, most of them Muslims.
In the 19th century, Kırşehir haber was attached to the sanjak of Ankara. In the year 1921, Kırşehir was made capital of its own province. Kemal Atatürk visited the city in 1921 and 1931.
Ecclesiastical history
Under the Latin name Mocissus it remains a titular metropolitan see in the former Roman province of Cappadocia. Procopius (De ædif., V, iv) informs us that this fortified site, in north-western Cappadocia, was constituted metropolis of Cappadocia Tertia by Justinian, when he divided that province into three parts, and gave it the name of Justinianopolis. Nothing is known of its history, and its name should perhaps be written Mocessus. There is no doubt that the site of Mocissus, or Mocessus, is that which is occupied by the modern city of Kırşehir haberler. This metropolis figured in the Notitiæ episcopatuum until the twelfth or thirteenth century. Only a few of its titulars are known: the earliest, Peter, attended the Council of Constantinople (536); the last, whose name is not known, was a Catholic, and was consecrated after the Council of Florence by Patriarch Metrophanes of Constantinople.
Kesikköprü Bridge
Kesikköprü is one of the bridges built by Seljuk Empire in Middle Anatolia. It is on the way of Kırşehir-Konya, about 20 km (12.43 mi) to the south of Kırşehir, and across the River Kızılırmak with its 13 parts.
In the inscription of bridge, it is written that the bridge was built by Atabeg İzzü’d-Din Muhammed in 646 of the Hegira/1248 of the Christian era during the rule of Keykavus, the son of Keyhüsrev.
The ones who came from İzmir and tried to reach Sivas and Erzurum from Tokat passed over Kesikköprü. We have learned that the inscription was sunken into the river in 1953. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it took the name of Kesikköprü due to the fact that caravan roads were invaded by the highwaymen.
The three-line instruction destroyed on stone base can hardly be read.

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KIRŞEHİR TARİHİ

Kırşehir ilinin bulunduğu
topraklar, târihte Anadolu’da ilk siyâsî birliği kuran Hititlerin toprakları
içinde bulunuyordu. Hititlerin iç savaş ve iktidar kavgaları ile dağılıp
yıkılmasından sonra bu topraklara Asurlular hâkim olmuştur. Persler M.Ö. 6.
asırda bu bölgeyi istilâ etmişlerdir. M.Ö. 4. asırda Makedonya Kralı İskender,
Persleri yenmiş, Anadolu ve İran’ı istilâ ederek Makedonya Devletine katmıştır.
İskender’in ölümü ile bu bölge (Asya) Selevkos Devletinin nüfuzunda kalmışsa da
fiilen bu bölge Kapadokya Krallığının olmuştur. Kapadokya Krallığı, Roma
İmparatorluğunun hâkimiyetini tanımış ve bilahare Roma İmparatorluğu, Kapadokya
Krallığı ile birlikte bu bölgeyi kendine bağlamıştır. M.S. 395 senesinde
Romaİmparatorluğu Batı ve Doğu olarak ikiye bölününce bütün Anadolu gibi bu
bölge de Doğu Roma (Bizans)nın payına düşmüştür.



İslâm orduları yedinci asır ortalarından başlayarak Kırşehir bölgesine birçok
defalar akınlar yaparak bu bölgeyi fethetmişlerse de devamlı olarak ellerinde
tutamamışlardır. 1071 Malazgirt Zaferinden sonra bütün Anadolu gibi
Kırşehir haber de, Anadolu Fâtihi
ve Anadolu’da Türk Devletinin kurucusu Kutalmışoğlu Birinci Süleyman Şah
tarafından fethedilmiştir.



Bir ara Selçuklulara bağlı Danişmendoğulları bu bölgede hâkim olmuşlar ve
1120’de Selçuklulara bağlı bir vilâyet daha sonra Konya Selçuklularının bir
vilâyeti olmuştur. On ikinci asrın ikinci yarısında şehir gelişmiş ve
Anadolu’nun bağrında en büyük ilim ve kültür merkezlerinden biri hâline
gelmiştir.



On dördüncü asır başlarında Kırşehir’de İlhanlı hükümdarları namına sikke
kesilmiştir.



Kırşehir24, Anadolu’da “Ahîlik”
denen tasavvufî esnaf teşkilâtının en mühim merkezlerinden biri olması ile 14.
asırda oldukça gelişmiştir. Meşhur Ahî Evren Kırşehir’e yerleşmiş, Mevlevî
Tarikatı gelişmiş ve büyük mutasavvıf ve Türk şâiri Âşık Paşa burada yaşamıştır.
Bu asırda müstesnâ bir kültür ve ilim merkezi olan
Kırşehir haberleri ’in şehir
nüfûsu 180 bini bulmuştur.



On dördüncü asrın ikinci yarısında Kırşehir bir ara Eretnaoğullarına (Sivas’a)
bağlanmış, sonradan Karamanoğullarının eline geçmiştir. Osmanlılar Kırşehir’i
Birinci Bayezid devrinde 1381’de almışsa da 1402’de Timur Kırşehir’i alarak
yeniden Karamanoğullarına geri vermiştir. Sultan İkinci Murad Han zamanında
Osmanlılar yeniden Kırşehir’e hâkim oldular. Celâli isyanları Kırşehir’in
gerilemesinde mühim rol oynamıştır.



Osmanlı devrinde Kırşehir, Konya (Karaman) Beylerbeyliğinin (eyâletinin) 7
sancağından (vilâyetinden) birine merkez olmuştur. Kırşehir’in 4 kazası vardı.
Cumhûriyetten sonra Kırşehir kendi adını taşıyan ilin merkezi, 1954’te Nevşehir,
Kırşehir’den ayrılarak il olmuştur. Kırşehir ilçe olmuştur. 1957’de Kırşehir
tekrar il hâline getirilmiştir.

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01.01.2010 tarihinde yayına giren sitemiz Kirsehirhaberler.com 2 senede Kırşehir'in en çok tıklanan haber sitesi olmayı başardı.

Alexa ve Google Analytics verilerine göre Kırşehir'de  ki haber siteleri arasında ilk 2 arasına girmeyi başardı. 01 Ocak 2010 yılından bu zamana kadar aylık ortlama 25 Bin ve üzerinde kullanıcıya hitap eden sitemiz gün geçtikçe büyümeğe devam ediyor. Amacımız sizlere Kırşehir başta olmak üzere tüm dünyada yaşanan olayları sizlere 7/24 duyurmaya çalıştık ve devam ediyoruz. Okuyucu kitlemiz sadece Kırşehir ve Türkiye değil, yurt dışında olan okuyucularımıza da hitap ediyoruz.

2 sene önce " Kırşehir'de Çağdaş Tarafsız İnternet Gazeteciliği " sloganımızla başladığımız yayın hayatımıza her kim olursa olsun doğru ve yanlışını tarafsız bir şekilde okuyucularımıza duyurduk. Gerek tehditler, gerek mahkemler ile yılmadan ve yıkılmadan sizinlerin desteği ile yayın hayatımıza birlikte devam ediyoruz.

Tüm okuyucularımıza Kirsehirhaberler.com Ailesi olarak teşekkür ediyoruz.
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Bodrum, Turkey

Bodrum Turkey

We had no idea what we were getting into when we got off the boat in Turkey. We never did any research on Turkey, we really didn't know anything at all about this country... except that it was close to Greece. So we didn't know what to expect. We arrived in Bodrum, Turkey, a nice town that is a big tourist attraction in the summer, but becomes a ghost town in the winter, which we experienced a bit. We caught a mini-bus (their public transportation) which is a little bigger than a mini-van and sits about 8-12 people, to our hotel, Bodrum Park Hotel. The hotel was pretty big but completely deserted, which was nice. We got the pool table and ping pong to ourselves whenever we wanted. Which consisted of some pretty heated games. The owner of the hotel, Hamza, was very helpful and incredibly nice. He hooked us up with a huge room and with a Turkish breakfast every morning, which we ate by the pool in solitude. The breakfast consisted of a hard-boiled egg, olives, cucumbers, tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, feta cheese, bread, butter and jam with coffee. It was simple but we looked forward to it every morning. 

Walking around Bodrum we were in awe of all the mosques, they were everywhere, you could see the minarets rising above the rest of the homes. That first night in Bodrum we were awakened really early in the morning by the Adhan prayer. It was quite an experience to hear for the first time but after a few days you get used to hearing it all the time. The Adhan prayer is done is called out 5 times a day from the minaret in the mosques. You can read more about the Adhan prayer here.

Bodrum used to be a big sea-sponge diving town. A lot of the men used ships called gulets to go out to sea and fish for sea sponges by scuba diving, and made good money doing it. They didn't have wetsuits and other high tech gear like we do today, they did it old-school, with the huge metal helmet and tube running from the suit to the boat, feeding the diver oxygen. Eventually the sea sponge business started declining so the divers started turning their beautiful gulets into boats for tourist excursions. These boats line all of Bodrum along the water, with such names as Princess Leyla, Zeus, and Nostalgia. The gulet is a traditional design of a two-masted wooden sailing vessel which was primarily built in south-west coast of Turkey. They are usually 14 to 35 meters and were so beautiful and in such good condition, it was quite a treat to walk down the boardwalk and see all these boats. 

A few other things we noticed:

-Greece had cats everywhere, but Bodrum had dogs everywhere that quietly followed us around.

-While walking around we came across many cafes or benches in the park where a few old men were playing backgammon. This game is very popular here, we unfortunately don't know how to play and never had the chance to learn in Turkey.

-The beach was completely deserted but we had a great time walking on the shore and in the water, although it was too cold to swim.

-Blue eyes (a ceramic eye, also called the 'evil eye'), which are very similar to the ones in Greece are everywhere. In doors, cars, shops and even in the pavement. Turks believe that they protect from evil.

-Mandarins and pomegranates were very cheap and we both love these two fruits so we went through quite a bit of mandarin peeling and pomegranate eating. They were delicious.

-Turkish flags are everywhere. Anywhere you look you will most likely see the Turkish flag. 

-Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is everywhere. There are photos of him in shops and restaurants. There are statues of him all over. We had no idea who this man was. So we did a little research and found he is the one who made Turkey what it is now. He was a Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and founder of the Republic of Turkey, as well as the first Turkish president.  He transformed the former Ottoman Empire into a modern and secular nation-state. In 1924 he changed the language from Arabic to a new Turkish language. He changed the ancient dress to a more western style of clothing. Up until this point Turks had no surnames, but Ataturk changed that, he made everyone decide on a surname for themselves. 


We have a few more posts coming up about Bodrum, Turkey. From Bodrum, we rented a car and explored the ancient cities of Priene, Ephesus, and Hieropolis in Pamukkale. We have a lot of catching up to do with our posts and a lot of good photos to share with you.


-Yuriy 

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